AgroParisTech Campus

Students and researchers are more invested than anyone else in the global challenges linked to climate change, the drastic decline in biodiversity, and the central question of the responsibility of human settlements, ways of life, production, cultivation, and consumption. The new campus of the Institute of Life Sciences and the Environment (AgroParisTech) and the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) in Plateau de Saclay must be equal to the task of tackling these issues.

Within a mix of urban and rural environments, the eight buildings are dotted around a 2-hectare park. The Forum, entrance building, lecture buildings, and INRA laboratories will be surrounded with plants and water used in the bioclimatic design (innovative greening of buildings) and earth-based construction materials. Studies carried out focused on the conception and development of an environmental strategy using thermal modeling and the design of a glass hall functioning similarly to a greenhouse. Designed for future generations over the next 30 years using dynamic thermal simulation calculations, this program embodies the environmental commitment approach.