Jacques Rougerie (architect)

Jacques Rougerie( born July 11, 1945 in Paris) is a French architect-oceanographer[1][2] who specializes in underwater habitats.[3]

Jacques Rougerie
Born
Jacques Rougerie

(1945-07-11) July 11, 1945
Nationality France
Alma materÉcole des beaux-arts de Paris
Institut d'océanographie de Paris
OccupationArchitect
PracticeAgence Jacques Rougerie Architectes Associés

Biography

Born in 1945 to a mathematician mother and a biogeographer father, companion of Theodore Monod, Rougerie lived in Ivory Coast until he turned 11. After moving to France, he entered The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts when he was 19, in 1964, in the Auguste Perret workshop directed by Andre Remondet and Paul Maymont. Inspired by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and first underwater habitats, he took classes in Institut Océanographique de Paris in 1970, while studying at French Institute of Urbanism and Ecole des Arts et Métiers under the lead of Jean Prouvé. In 1972 he got a master's degree in architecture.[4]

Rougerie bases his research on bionic architecture,[5] in accordance with principles of sustainable development, aiming at emphasizing the role of the sea in the history of the humanity.[5] Rougerie builds underwater habitats and laboratories, aquatic centers, transparent shell vessels, subaquatic museums and conceives underwater living areas.[6]

In 2008, Rougerie was elected at the Institut de France - Académie des Beaux-Arts and in 2009, he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur. His flagship project SeaOrbiter, is a futuristic seabed exploration vessel. Rougerie is also involved in floating hotels and universities projects.[7]

Main creations

Museums and aquatic centers
  • 1981 : Sea Pavilion (Kobe, Japan),
  • 1989 : Océanopolis I (Brest),
  • 1991 : Nausicaá I (Boulogne-sur-Mer),
  • 2000 : Océanopolis II (Brest),
  • 2001 : Nausicaá II (Boulogne-sur-Mer),[8]
  • 2014 : Caribbean Sea Centre (Guadeloupe),
  • 2014 : Kochi Oceanarium (India),
  • 2015 : Alexandria underwater archaeological museum (Egypt).

Underwater habitats
  • 1973-75 : « Village sous la mer », Virgin Islands (USA), conceived to work and live under the sea,
  • 1977 : « Galathée », his first underwater habitat,
  • 1978-98 : « Aquabulles », underwater shelter,
  • 1981 : « Hippocampe », subaquatic habitat,
  • 1989 : « Aqualab », underwater habitat-laboratory, based on the concept of transparent shells vessels,
  • 1981 : « Aquascopes », variable buoyancy trimaran,
  • 1982 - 2000 : « Aquaspace », sail trimaran with a transparent shell.

Other creations
  • 1991 : Institut français d’Informatique (Marne la Vallée),
  • 1991 : Larousse Formula 1 Factory(Signes),
  • 1994 : Environmental research center (Dunkerque),
  • 2009 : Stade aquatique de l'agglomération de Vichy,
  • 2012 : La Tontouta International Airport,
  • 2013 : Piscine Molitor.

Research and projects
  • Marine City « City in the Ocean » (United Arab Emirates),
  • Embassair private airport terminals (London, New York),
  • Malley Star tower on positive energy (Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland),
  • Shell Tower (United Arab Emirates),
  • Atlantide Hotelia Complex.
  • Seaspacelab : underwater laboratory (USA),
  • Aquaspace III : underwater observation trimaran,
  • SeaOrbiter : 58 m high, 31 immersed, SeaOrbiter is a project aimed at constant oceans observation. Drifting with the sea currents, this platform should enable divers and underwater robots to explore the marine life of the deep, underwater flaws and sunken ruins.

Bibliography
  • Habiter la mer, (EMOM, 1978) ;
  • Les Enfants du Capitaine Némo, (Arthaud, 1985) ;
  • De 20,000 Lieues sous les Mers à SeaOrbiter, (éditions Democratic Book, 2010)
gollark: So "not utopian".
gollark: It's not utopian or perfect, I know roughly how it works.
gollark: I mean, the... setting... not the location.
gollark: What?
gollark: I vaguely remember the setting being kind of insane.

References
  1. "Les sentinelles de l'Océan, les ports de demain, avec Jacques Rougerie, de l'Académie des beaux arts". Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  2. "Biographie de Jacques Rougerie". Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  3. "Le monde de demain selon Jacques Rougerie". Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  4. Fiche de Jacques Rougerie à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts
  5. "Oceanopolis, histoire" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 26, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  6. Article de Futura Sciences
  7. "L'océan réinventé". Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  8. https://www.amc-archi.com/photos/cinq-chantiers-a-suivre-en-2018,7843/le-chantier-du-grand-nausicaa.2
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