Saint-Martin-d'Hères Travel Guide

 JLBG Says:  What a 3 meters high broken safe, split into two parts and with a huge hole at its bottom might mean in a campus is a mystery and I have not found any clue about it. Earthquake ? Grenoble is built on several hundreds of meters of deposits and in case of an earthquake, it... 

 JLBG Says:  This bars stand in front of the south side of University Stendhal. It was built in 1975 by François Morellet (born in 1926). It is a structure made of stainless steel tubing on a square serial frame. It belongs to the series spheres and frames. And is 6.20m x 16.30m 

 JLBG Says:  This stainless structure stands in the middle of the main interchange that leads to the campus. It is shining under the sun light both in the morning and in late afternoon. I have not yet found who was the author of this sculpture. 

 JLBG Says:  This one is also easy to read. What students do most of the time when they are not working ? They are standing in line ! Standing in line for registration. Standing in line for the restaurant. This is what is represented here. 

 JLBG Says:  This is another bus stop. This one is easier to read, showing a face with two eyes and a nose peeping behind the bus stop. These bus stops were built when the campus was not yet completely working. The actual bustops are not were they were built and thus they are not used at... 

 JLBG Says:  Several of these landmarks were designed as bus stops. This one is along one of the main avenues of the campus but I had never noticed it (and I guess most campus users have not either) until I began to take photos for this page ! I will not try to wander what it is supposed... 

 JLBG Says:  This set of stainless devices have remained clearly visible but are now part of the landscape. They are colloquially called "la cafetière" that I dare to translate as "the tea pot" though I know that coffee and tea are different ! 

 JLBG Says:  During the period the campus was built, art works were scattered in the campus. Some have so well melted into the landscape that they are completely forgotten. This one was designed to reminds of the surrounding mountains. It was made of metal walls holding earth; Nature has... 

 JLBG Says:  Louis Weill was the Dean of the University that worked hard to build the campus (which is larger than the city of Grenoble). A prestige amphitheater, used only for international meetings, for major conferences has been built and bears its name. It is a parallepiped of... 

 JLBG Says:  The structure of the library is very special and uses both reinforced concrete and wood that reminds of the "Chalets" of the Alps. Nothing is strait but there are only angles and not a single curved line. On the whole, it fits perfectly into the mountain landscape.... 

 JLBG Says:  The Science library is the architectural masterpiece of the campus. It was built in 1962. The architect is Clément-David Cacoud with G. Bovet (urbanist) and E. Pillet (plastician). It has been recently recognized as "Patrimoine du XXème siècle" (Patrimony of the XXth... 

 JLBG Says:  Three projects were presented. Cherif Kebbal's project, architect and teaching in the École d'Architecture de Grenoble won as it fulfilled all expectations and included students in its achievement, as part of their end of studies project.Here, Mars, the red planet is in the... 

 JLBG Says:  The project was aimed to build at actual scale our solar system. All distances had to be exact, all sizes to fit to reality and when possible, the surface of each planet had to be represented as we know it now. However there is a 1/90 ratio between distances and sizes of the... 

 JLBG Says:  The "Sentier planétaire" was realized in 2004 in the campus though the idea began to brew in 1996. The idea came from Manuel Forestini, researcher in the Laboratory of Astrophysique. It is the building of a small scale representation of our solar system.This picture shows... 

 JLBG Says:  Minatec came into existence at the instigation of CEA-Leti Grenoble and INP Grenoble. Its ambition is to be Europe's top centre for innovation and expertise in micro and nanotechnology. Minatec is located in Crolles, 20 km north to Grenoble.The following has been borough to... 

 JLBG Says:  CEA GrenobleThe CEA is a public research center and a major player in research, development and innovation, the CEA intervenes in three main fields: energy, information and health technologies and Defense. The CEA Grenoble, formerly called CENG (Centre d'Études Nucléaires de... 

 JLBG Says:  ESRF stands for European Synchrotron Radiation FacilityThe ESRF is on the "Polygone" research center, at the confluent of the Isère and of the Drac rivers.The following two paragraphs have been borough to the ESRF web site.The ESRF is a joint facility supported and shared by...