Elioth

ARTEM is short for Art, Technology and Management ; three disciplines which will be taught at Nancy’s new university campus. Located in the heart of the town, it will welcome over 2,500 students and have for vocation « to prepare the artists, engineers and managers of the future to work & create together ».

Elioth took part in the project in three fields of its competences by ensuring full engineering services for the gallery, and the indoor main street reuniting the three learning institutions which formed the ARTEM project. Elioth thus ensured the design and the follow-up of the construction of the gallery (structure and enveloppe) as well as the environmental expertise for the campus along with the architects Nicolas Michelin & Associates.

The Artem gallery is a large, very fine, folded steel structure. In the town where Jean Prouvé, famous French architect & designer, set up his workshop, Elioth took minute care with detail in striving to obtain a structure as light and as flexible as possible. The primary structure (over 300 m) was thought out in order to blend in with the structural glazing and the façade to highlight the architectural design

 The framework of the indoor street is simple in its structural operation but complex in its manufacturing due to the welded fabricated sections (PRS) also by the quantity and quality of the welded joints on site. To determine the nodes, frequent consultation with the architects was necessary. Elioth was able to put to benefit its CAD parametrics to help solve the complex geomatric dispositions of the structure/enveloppe interface.

The Artem gallery combines contemporary and innovative environmental techniques, control of the hygrothermic room temperature which combines natural ventilation in summer and the thermal buffer of the enveloppe in winter by recuperating solar heat gain and particlar care given to the enveloppe’s sealing. The Canadian wells (5 fresh air pipes buried under the ground) which allows to treat not only the air in the gallery but also a part of the adjoining buildings. The use of geothermal energy brings comfort to the gallery and saves energy in the buildings. The Artem canadian  wells  represent a true precedent in the use of this type of air-soil exchanger on an urban scale.