In 2010, Lafarge and Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture are signing a new partnership and focusing on the challenges of sustainable construction and urban planning. Experts from the Group have spoken at conferences within the school and students will be coming to France for visits and meetings about architecture and construction materials.
A 2nd partnership between Lafarge and Columbia University |
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Following an initial partnership in 2008 with Columbia's
Graduate School of Architecture (New
York), this year Lafarge is sponsoring a new program,
the MDS (Materials-based Design Studio), the main focus of which will be
construction materials and their use in urban planning.
During the 2nd stage of the program, students will discover Paris and its concrete architecture, as well as the Lafarge Research center in Lyon. The tour of the Group's laboratory, the largest in the world for construction materials, will give the students an opportunity to meet the Group's engineers and scientists in person. It will also be a chance to find out about the scientific aspects of concrete and attend demonstrations of the Group's innovative concretes. |
2008 partnershipLafarge and Columbia University had previously worked together on the conference series dedicated to concrete: "Solid States: Changing Time for Concrete". Well-known universities, engineers and architects presented the material's future evolutions and potentials. |
Overview of the MDS |
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Tour scheduleDuring their stay in France, the students from Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture will visit the Le Corbusier Foundation and the Cité de l'Architecture (Paris). A meeting with famous architect Marc Mimram is also being organized to discuss concrete-based research and architecture. The group will then head to Lyon and the Lafarge Research center, for a tour of the Group's laboratories. |
The aim of the MDS, which was launched on January 22nd, 2010, is to
study what new concretes can offer in the context of densification of US cities
and their contribution to structures' thermal
and environmental performances. Students particularly study the impact this
densification has on construction methods. The densification of cities requires
higher constructions that are closer together, which could threaten the
traditional US
model of large expanses of wooden houses. |
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Last update on 03/12/2010
