Factories : Logistic dispatching international center, Pierre Fabre Industry, Ussel (France) - 2002The building of this dispatching centre was decided for the department of the Dolisos homeopathic medicines belonging to the Pierre Fabre Group.
The building is located on the upper part of the field, at a 675 m altitude, and is backed to a wood.
Being not very high, it represents a compact and circular volume which has a 120 m diameter.
Built on a reinforced concrete infrastructure base, the building has a steel framework with great spans supporting a roof on several levels with isolating and waterproof steel basins, or PVC membranes.
The frontwalls are also made of steel, and are composed of double-isolating side pannels, white lacquered and thermolacquered woods with double-glazings.
The access and the surroundings were carefully designed in order to optimize the incorporation of this building in this natural site.
This building was awarded the prize of the “most beautiful steel building” in 2000.