Dr. Miquel Lacasta, a professor who teaches the final degree project at the UIC-ESARQ School of Architecture, has won a competition to build the Montpellier-Saint-Roch car park in France along with partners Marc Chalamanch and Carmen Santana of the architects' practice Archikubik.
The purpose of the building is to house a car park that will serve the high-speed railway station in the city of Montpellier. It will consist of a commercial space on the ground floor and nine further floors. The car park will feature a unique 150-metre façade, which will be clad with ceramic fabric.
The competition’s judging panel was made up of architects Paul Chemetov and Manuelle Gautrand; Christophe Lladeres, the president of the French Order of Architects; architect Stéphane Goavec; and Hélène Mandroux, the Mayor of Montpellier. The competition consisted of two phases, the first of which was open and the second of which was limited to five teams, including the architect studios Edouard François of Paris, Marc Barani of Nice, N+B Architects of Montpellier and SCAU of Paris.
