Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: C42: Citroën Showroom
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Preferred Title:
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C42: Citroën Showroom
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Alternate Title:
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Espace Citroën
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Image View:
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Detail, flat glass curtain wall of entrance with chevron facets above
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Creator:
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Manuelle Gautrand (French architect, born 1961)
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Location:
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site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Location Note:
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42 Avenue des Champs-Élysées
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GPS:
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+48.870180+2.307723
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Date:
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2002-2007 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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store
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Work Type 2:
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automobile showroom
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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glass; steel; motors
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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1200 m2 (area)
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Description:
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Built as the flagship showroom on the Champs-Élysées for the automobile manufacturer Citroën. The cars are presented as a kind of corporate totem composed of eight vehicles stacked on platters, one on top of the other. The arrangement forms a gigantic upright display around which visitors move in an ascending/descending spiral movement via flights of stairs and landings. The cars are displayed on revolving circular platforms under a faceted mirror-ceiling that fragments and multiplies their lines and details. The building skin is faceted glass and plays on the distinctive shape of the Citroën logo: the double chevron, in red and white. (Source: Manuelle Gautrand [firm website]; http://www.manuelle-gautrand.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Nine
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Identifier:
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1A1-GAUTM-CSR-A07
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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