{"id":43382,"date":"2025-07-07T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patrickseguin.com\/?p=43382"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:37:03","slug":"station-service-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickseguin.com\/en\/designers\/jean-prouve\/architecture-jean-prouve\/station-service-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling Station, 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The filling station designed in 1969 for the Total oil company typifies JEAN PROUV\u00c9<\/strong>\u2019s concern with producing architecture that was light, modular, and adaptable.<\/p>\n

The circular shape of this small, one or two-level structure reflected the client\u2019s wish to stand out from the competion with filling stations whose originality of design would combine a powerful, readily identifiable signal with an attractively modern corporate image. Jean Prouv\u00e9 saw this as the chance to pursue his long-standing experiments in producing innovative, functional architectural entities in harmony with the technical advances of his time.<\/p>\n

Returning to the principle of the supporting core he had come up with in the early 1950s, Prouv\u00e9 suggested a central-plan building whose radial metal structure rested on a bent steel axial shaft. This small building illustrates the designer\u2019s interest in utilizing the resources provided by new materials, such as plastic. For Jean Prouv\u00e9 the assemblage was an integral part of the project, helping to highlight the constructional process: it took only four builders and 10 days for the filling station to become operational.<\/p>\n

Although the filling stations were not originally planned to be movable, the process devised by Prouv\u00e9 and his team included this possibility, and a number of them were quickly and easily moved several kilometers in response to changing traffic needs. The filling stations were planned to last ten years or so. Some of them are still in existence \u2014 as filling stations or not \u2014 but only few remain in their original state.<\/p>\n

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