Menier Factory
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| Menier Factory | |
| Designer | Jules Saulnier |
| Location | Noisel-sur-Marne, France |
| Date | 1871 to 1872 |
| Building Type | factory |
| Construction System | iron, brick |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban, on piers over river |
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| Notes | "Menier Chocolate Factory" full iron frame with expressed cross bracing - important in history of technology. Over the river Marne. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Menier_Factory.html |
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The structure was comprised of two exterior lattice girders running for the full height of the building and two rows of cast-iron columns running down the interior of the volume on either side of a central corridor. Both lattice girders and columns were supported on riveted, sheet-iron, tubular box beams spanning between the masonry piers, which in effect was a form of early megastructure. The three intermediate floors were formed by brick vaulted construction spanning onto riveted wrought-iron joists which in their turn were carried by the external lattice girders and the internal columns. The lattice framework on the exterior was finally filled with a thin layer of hollow brickwork whose variegated colour was coursed in such a way as to resemble alternately the letter ‘M’ standing for Menier and a conventionalized silhouette of a cacao tree. -- Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p33.
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- Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. photo, p1218, f D. description, p1220.
- John Musgrove, ed. Sir Bannister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. London: The Royal Institute of British Architects and The University of London, 1987. exterior elevation drawing of facade, p1149 plateA,
- Kenneth Frampton, Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0506-9. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. exterior photo of overall view, p33. interior photo of woking area, p35. exterior color photo of detail, p32.
- Mentioned in book review by Alan Brookes, The Architectural Review. February 1992, p12.
[edit] External Links
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel nomination information at UNESCO World Heritage site. 2002.0102.
