Seminar ‘Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’

‘Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’
session #13

 Flying with the flow: The evolving landscape of maintenance

at airport facilities

with Céline Ciman and Hubert Fontanel-Ngo, Aéroport de Paris Real Estate Division

When it opened in 1961, Orly Airport amazed the public as a ‘future made real’, in the words of urban planner Nathalie Roseau. Half a century later, the airport is welcoming the new Cœur d’Orly walkway: a high-tech structure with a futuristic design whose seamless steel tubes rise to the challenges of strength, lightness and durability.

Beyond the symbol of modernity turned towards an unchanging horizon, how can structures be made to last when they evolve in response to the flow and intensification of use? How is the transition negotiated from projects that combine innovation and technical sophistication to practical concerns about their maintainability, and with whom?

Participation is free but registration is required. Please register here.
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The seminar will be held in French.

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