Louvain-la-Neuve Cyclotron
UCLouvain Cyclotron | |
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Cyclotron de Louvain-la-Neuve | |
General information | |
Architectural style | Brutalism |
Location | Louvain-la-Neuve |
Address | Chemin du Cyclotron 1, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve |
Town or city | Louvain-la-Neuve |
Country | Belgium |
Coordinates | 50°39′56″N 4°37′25″E / 50.665447°N 4.623661°E |
Construction started | 1970 |
Completed | 1972 |
Owner | UCLouvain |
Height | 16 metres (52 ft) (accelerator tower)[1] |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Roger Bastin, Guy Van Oost, Pierre Lamby |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 192 |
Parking | Parking Cyclotron Parking Baudouin I |
Website | |
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The Louvain-la-Neuve Cyclotron is a
In addition to two particle accelerators of the Cyclotron Research Center, the complex holds the
Location
The Cyclotron is located at number 1, Chemin du Cyclotron,[1] East of the city of Louvain-la-Neuve, between Boulevard Baudouin Ier, Avenue Louis de Geer and the Chemin du Cyclotron, and North of the Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park.[citation needed]
History
First cyclotron in Heverlee
After the
It was replaced by the research center in Louvain-la-Neuve, where the core of this first Belgian cyclotron is still visible, installed as a monument in front of the new cyclotron.[4][5] The 6m3 core has been painted red.[6]
Construction of the city of Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve undoubtedly ranks as the most ambitious of the cities built from scratch in Belgium.[7] Forced to leave the city of Leuven during the Leuven crisis, the French-speaking part of the Catholic University of Leuven decides to move to a new location in 1968 on an agricultural plateau located North-East of Ottignies in Brabant,[8] on the other side of Belgium's official language border, and started the construction of a new university town.[9]
Construction of the Louvain-la-Neuve Cyclotron
As part of this move, the
Cyclotron Research Center
The Cyclotron Research Centre was equipped in the early 1970s with a first particle accelerator called CYCLONE110, built by Thomson-CSF in collaboration with the Ateliers de constructions électriques de Charleroi (ACEC) and used for nuclear physics, isotope production, medical and technological applications.[14] A second accelerator, called CYCLONE30, was designed and built by the Cyclotron Research Centre team between 1984 and 1987: mainly designed for industrial and medical applications, it is mainly used for isotope production.[15][16] Further models of CYCLONE30 were built by Ion Beam Applications.[17]
Yves Jongen and Ion Beam Applications
The first director of the Cyclotron Research Centre was Yves Jongen, from
Heritage status
The Louvain-la-Neuve Cyclotron has received the status of Registered monument and is included in the Inventory of immovable cultural heritage of the Walloon region under reference 25121-INV-0070-01.[1]
Architecture
Brutalism
While the city centre of Louvain-la-Neuve is built with only a nod to brutalist tendencies,[7] the Eastern part of the city, which was first in the city's chronological development,[8] is of clear brutalist architecture.[9] The Cyclotron's off-centre position allowed architect Roger Bastin "to escape the Louvain-la-Neuve style where Wanlin's Walloon brick, slate roofs, snuff boxes and wooden frames dominate".[2]
The Cyclotron's buildings are very representative of the brutalist style, characterized by facades of uncoated raw concrete, whose surfaces often have a texture inherited from formwork wood,[20] leading to raw formwork concrete,[1] retaining the mark of the wooden boards used for molding, their grain and their joint lines.[21]
The pavement of the paths surrounding the Cyclotron is made of white concrete pavers known as "Blanc de Bierges", a type of paving stone found throughout the city of Louvain-la-Neuve and that has marked its urban landscape.
Buildings
Structure of the complex
The Cyclotron's architectural complex, which develops around a central garden, consists of three office and laboratory towers (one to the west, which was the first completed, one to the north and one to the east) each 24 meters wide,[2] and several low-rise buildings, housing auditorii up to 110 seats, several classrooms and a medical unit.[2]
The Cyclotron's bunker and laboratories
The Cyclotron itself is a simply designed space with 3 meter thick concrete walls and an accelerator tower which is 16 meters high.[2] The laboratories (ateliers) and technical facilities are located a bit lower than the towers.
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The ateliers (the Cyclotron's technical facilities).
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The accelerator tower.
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The Cyclotron's bunker with 3 meter thick walls.
The North Tower (Marc de Hemptinne building)
The North Tower, called after Marc de Heptinne, one of the university's most famous physicists, is the highest of the three and one of Louvain-la-Neuve's largest buildings.[22] Its five floors and adjacent wings currently house:
- the Cyclotron Resource Centre, which tests components with heavy ion, proton, neutron and Cobalt-60 beams and produces microporous membranes;[23]
- the Louvain School of Mathematics and the School of Physics of the Faculty of Science;[22]
- the Mathematics and Physics Research Institute;
- the Centre for Applied Molecular Technologies at the Institute for Experimental and Clinical Research;
- the Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology;
- the Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research;
- ten auditorii, the largest of which (CYCL01) has 106 seats.
The East Tower
The eastern tower, located in front of the headquarters of Ion Beam Applications, goes lower than the North Tower, with only three floors. It also houses multiple services, both in the domains of physics and of entrepreneurship & business management, projects associated with the Louvain School of Management:
- the Radiation Protection Department of the University of Louvain;
- the Business and Innovation Centre (CEI), a business incubator for startups and innovative SMEs;[24]
- Yncubator (Young Entrepreneurs Lab), Louvain-la-Neuve's incubator for student-led projects;[25]
- the Louvain Coworking Space.[26]
Public art around the Cyclotron
Science Park sculptures
The Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park, which stretches just behind de Cyclotron, shows a rich collection of public artworks.
1970s and 1980s
In 1976, artist R.M. Lovell-Cooper created a stainless steel sculpture for company Afine: entitled Affinités, the sculpture stands at n° 10 rue du Bosquet and "evokes two hands raised towards the sky, the ends of which are trying to get closer".[6][27]
At n° 15 on the same street stands a bronze sculpture on a rough stone base entitled L'Endormie VI, created in 1980 by the Belgian sculptor
At n° 4, at the corner formed with the rue du Bosquet,[29] Hubert Minnebo's 1988 sculpture in hammered and welded copper entitled Bien motivés, ils symbolisèrent leur rayonnement.[6]
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Affinités, Lovell-Cooper (1976).
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L'Endormie VI, Olivier Strebelle (1980).
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Bien motivés, ils symbolisèrent leur rayonnement, Hubert Minnebo (1988).
Sculptures from the 1990s
In front of the headquarters of Ion Beam Applications (n° 6 avenue Jean-Étienne Lenoir) inaugurated in 1991, Italian artist Mauro Staccioli erected a Corten steel sculpture of about 6 metres in diameter entitled Anneau [Ring].[6] For IBA, the Italian artist chose the symbolism of the circle: "With the specificity of IBA's activity, I think it is relevant to establish a link between form and content that finds, in the geometric form, the beauty of the rational and the essence of research".[6]
Regard de Lumière, set up in 1993, is Charles Delporte's flagship artwork: "This piece is my torch, my jewel". According to critics Christophe Dosogne and Wivine de Traux, "this sculpture, created in 1948, can be found in Moscow, Paris, Namur, Brussels and Damme, in different materials and sizes". Here in Louvain-la-Neuve, where it stands at n° 4 Albert Einstein Avenue, it is made of bronze skated on a polyester base[30] and "represents the trinity of the theological virtues: faith, hope and charity".[6]
In 1998, Marie-Paule Haar installed an untitled sculpture at n° 1 Albert Einstein Avenue, consisting of a 5 meter high powder-coated aluminum structure.[6] Standing on the parking lot of the Louvain-la-Neuve driving test centre, the sculpture refers to a motorway interchange loop.
In front of n° 15 Albert Einstein Avenue stands a 2 meter high bronze sculpture on blue stone entitled Le Porteur d'eau, created by Thérèse Chotteau in 1999 for Realco. "The man placed in balance on the inclined space of the support carries on his shoulder a bronze wavy line representing water. Thérèse Chotteau's water carrier echoes Realco's activity, which produces enzymes and bacteria for water purification."[6]
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Anneau, Mauro Staccioli (1960s).
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Regard de Lumière, Charles Delporte (1993).
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Untitled, Marie-Paule Haar (1998).
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Le Porteur d'eau, Thérèse Chotteau (1999).
Sculptures from the 2000s
At the corner of avenue Albert Einstein and avenue Jean-Étienne Lenoir, at the foot of the postmodern New Tech Center building (DSW Architects, 1999), Vinciane Renard created the artwork Valentin, a bronze sculpture, in 2000.[31]
At n° 1 rue du Bosquet, also in the year 2000, artist Roxane Enescu erected Lapte,[32] a titanium sculpture promoted by company Fasska. According to the artist, "This open, ascending and evolving circle is a metallic surface element made of titanium sheet that wraps itself around a space inhabited by human beings (...). This essential curve suggests the pregnant woman's stomach, the cradle, softness, well-being". Many stylized figures have been carved from metal.[6]
Patience is a sculpture in black Denée marble and crinoid limestone created in 2005 by Romanian-born artist Marian Sava for company Immosc (located at n° 7 rue du Bosquet).[33]
La Découverte [The Discovery], made in 2005 by Luc Vanhonnacker at n° 13, avenue Albert Einstein,[34] reveals fragments of the human body gushing out of the blue stone.[6]
In search of the lost star or Scrutateur d'étoiles, created in 2006 by Philip Aguirre y Otegui[35] for Interscience at n° 2 avenue Jean-Étienne Lenoir is a 3 meter high concrete sculpture.[6]
At the corner of the avenue Albert Einstein and rue Louis De Geer, Geneviève Vastrade erected a kind of totem pole made of an old stone agricultural roller. This scroll engraved with letters, some of which are carved upside down evokes both the agricultural land on which Louvain-la-Neuve is built and the scrolls of the presses used in printing plants, such as the Denef printer and publisher in front of which the sculpture stands.[6]
With his steel sheet sculpture L'Alu Blister, created in 2007 at n° 5 rue du Bosquet, Vincent Strebell chose to refer to the activity of sponsoring firm Constantia, specialized in printing aluminium foils for the pharmaceutical industry.[6][36]
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Valentin, Vinciane Renard (2000).
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Lapte, Roxane Enescu (2000).
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Patience, Marian Sava (2005).
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La Découverte, Luc Vanhonnacker (2005).
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À la recherche de l'étoile perdue, Philip Aguirre (2006).
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Untitled, Geneviève Vastrade (2006).
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Alu Blister, Vincent Strebell (2007).
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- ^ "Centre d'Entreprises et d'Innovation". CEI Louvain (in French).
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- ^ "L'Endormie IV - Art dans la ville". olln.be (in French). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.
- ^ "Bien motivés, ils symbolisèrent leur rayonnement - Art dans la ville". olln.be (in French). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.
- ^ "Regard de Lumière - Art dans la ville". olln.be (in French). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.
- ^ "Valentin - Art dans la ville". olln.be (in French). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.
- ^ "Lapte - Art dans la ville". olln.be (in French). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.
- ^ "Patience - Art dans la ville". olln.be (in French). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.
- ^ "La Découverte - Art dans la ville". olln.be (in French). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.
- ^ "In search of the lost star ou Scrutateur d'étoiles - Art dans la ville". olln.be (in French). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.
- ^ "L'Alu Blister - Art dans la ville". olln.be (in French). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.