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Inauguration of Georges Charpak building at the
Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse - IESC
Friday, September 28th, 2012,
Menasina (Cargèse)
PRESS KIT
Contacts
CNRS
Karine Baligand
T 04 91 16 46 30 / 06 82 99 41 25
karine.baligand@dr12.cnrs.fr
IESC
Dominique Donzella
T 04 95 26 80 40
dominique.donzella@iesc.univ-corse.fr
Université de Corse
Sylvia Flore
T 04 95 45 02 71 / 06 26 91 95 35
flore@univ-corse.fr

Contents
- Press release
- Agenda of the day
- The l’Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse – IESC :
History, activities, future evolution
- The Georges Charpak building

Press invitation
Inauguration of Georges Charpak building at the
Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse - IESC
Friday, September 28th, 2012 at 10:30 a.m.
Menasina (Cargèse)
The university of Corsica Pasquale Paoli and the CNRS will inaugurate the Georges Charpak
building at the l’Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse – IESC (CNRS/Université de
Corse/Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), on Friday September 28 th , 2012 at 10:30 a.m. To
reinforce its image as privileged site for the diffusion of scientific knowledge renowned in
France and worldwide, IESC conceived and built this new building for hosting scientist on its
site according to the most innovative and ambitious criteria of energetic performances
The primary mission of IESC is scientific education and diffusion of knowledge. Around 30 events of
international impact (schools, conferences, thematic workshops) take place from February to November.
The institute hosts around two thousand scientists from all countries per year
Due to its top notch reputation in sciences the institute has known an intense outgrowth in the last years
requiring upgrading and optimization of services and hosting structures. The building of this new edifice
to host invited personalities is one of the IESC answers; it is dedicated to George Charpak, Nobel prize
laureate and fervent participant and supporter of IESC from its early days.
A guided tour of the new zero energy building is scheduled at 11 a.m. The ceremony will culminate with
a piano recital at 4p.m. A short scientific symposium recapitulating the knowledge and expertise in
environmentally friend constructions will take place at 2 p.m.
Contacts
Scientist
IESC I Giovanna Chimini I T 06 74 98 27 30 I giovanna.chimini@iesc.univ-corse.fr
Communication
CNRS I Karine Baligand I T 06 82 99 41 25 I karine.baligand@dr12.cnrs.fr
Université de Corse I Sylvia Flore I T 04 95 45 02 71 / 06 26 91 95 35 I flore@univ-corse.fr
IESC I Dominique Donzella I T 04 95 26 80 40 I dominique.donzella@iesc.univ-corse.fr

Agenda
10: 30 a.m. Welcome address by Giovanna Chimini , Director of Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de
Cargèse
11: 00 Guided tour of the building
11: 30 Unveiling of the inaugural slab
11:45 Presentations
- Mrs Giovanna Chimini, Director , IESC
- M. Jean-François Pinton, Director, CNRS- INP
- M. Paul-Marie Romani, Dean, University of Corsica
- M. Antoine Jeanneret, Regional Director , ADEME
- M. Michel Barat, Rector of the academy of Corsica , chancelier des universités
- M. Paul Giacobbi, President, conseil exécutif de Corse
- M. Patrick Strzoda, Prefet of Corsica
0 :45 p.m. Buffet Lunch
02 :00 Mini-symposium « Optimisation du bilan énergétique des bâtiments »
chaired by Etienne Wurtz, Institut national de l’énergie solaire-INES, Bourget du Lac
04:00 Piano recital by Bruno Rigutto (vide infra)

Vendredi Jeudi
28 14
OCTOBRE
Septembre
2012 2011
14:00
18h00 /18h30
14h-16h
Optimization of energetic building
performances
Etienne WURTZ, INES
With the participation of:
Michael DONN
University of Wellington, NZ
Recommendations from the international agency for energy ( IAE) on
Net Zero Energy buildings
PhD laureates
From the summer school: « Understanding Net Zero energy buildings »
Michel PONS
LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay,FR
Comparative aeraulic simulation of Charpak building.
Sebastien WULLENS
LOCIE-INES, Université de Savoie,FR
Modelization of natural ventilation in Charpak building
MINI SYMPOSIUM
for the official inauguration of
GEORGES CHARPAK
16h00-17h00
Récital de Piano par Bruno RIGUTTO
BUILDING
Direction scientifique :
Giovanna Chimini
Contact :
Dominique Donzella
tél : 04 95 26 80 40
www.iesc.univ-corse.fr

Vendredi Jeudi
27 28
Octobre
Septembre
2011 2012
18:00 16:00
A L’OCCASION DE
L’INAUGURATION DU BÂTIMENT
«GEORGES CHARPAK»
RECITAL DE PIANO
BRUNO RIGUTTO
PROFESSEUR AU CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL SUPÉRIEUR DE MUSIQUE DE PARIS
CHOPIN SCHUMANN RAVEL
ENTREE GRATUITE
Direction scientifique :
Giovanna Chimini
Contact :
Dominique Donzella
tél : 04 95 26 80 40
www.iesc.univ-corse.fr

The Institute
The Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse - IESC is a mixed unit depending from the CNRS the
université de Corse and the université Nice Sophia Antipolis. The main mission of IESC is scientific
training and diffusion of scientific knowledge. This results in an internationally renowned program of
around 30 scientific events organized around the year (schools, conferences and thematic workshops).
The choice of selected themes emerges from a careful analysis exerted by the scientific advisory board
composed by eminent scientists, experts in a broad panel of disciplines. The institutes attracts on
average 2000 scientists per year from all over the world.
EVER-GROWING ACTIVITIES
L’IESC is internationally recognized for the high scientific quality of its program. The scientific direction
acts to develop and harmonize the program of events and appraise their impact on the scientific
community.
A recent increase in scientific activities has imposed an optimization of services and structures available
for hosted scientists. The pace of event organization and the broadening of the themes covered by the
IESC program are the major factors underlying the intensification of activities.
In addition care has been taken to introduce in the program inspirational encounters proposing
discussions on emerging questions in sciences .
The European contours of science have also influenced the development of IESC activity. Indeed the
institute has to maintain its leading position as an identified venue for schools and courses in a
constantly growing competitive environment. . In this context the efforts towards the amelioration of local
facilities and accommodation plays a crucial role .
SCIENTIFIC TRAINING FOR THE NEW GENERATION
The IESC in collaboration with la main a la pate, the academia of Corsica and the ministry of higher
education develops pedagogical initiatives devoted to accompany the training in scientific thinking at
primary school and college. This is accompanied by artistic workshops for the youngest inhabitants of
Cargese. The IESC is supported by the majors of Cargese and Piana, by Collectivité Territoriale
Corse and the music ensemble Calliopée.
HISTORICAL NOTES
The Institute started in the 60's as an independent nonprofit association (1901) in villa Menasina under
the direction of Maurice Levy, an eminent theoretical physicist. At that time only few schools of
theoretical physics were held at the venue during summer.
In 1975 governmental institutions supported the building of new facilities allowing a progressive
increase in IESC activity. Since 1996 the Institute is affiliated to the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, University of Corsica and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
From its early days the Institute has progressively broaden the fields of activity and acquired new
facilities; nowadays it hosts all year round scientific events, workshops and schools from a broad
spectrum of disciplines. The IESC is internationally recognized for the high quality of the scientific
program. Eminent scientists, Nobel, Lasker or Fields laureate regularly organize, animate and

participate to events taking place at the IESC. The Nobel prize George Charpak has been a fervent
supporter and accompanied the activities at the Institute in its early days. It is our pride to list among our
participants Albert Fert, Alain Aspect, Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Doug North, Randy Schekman and the
2010 Nobel prize in physics Konstantin Novozelov.
Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse © 2012
Quantum Optics school in 1967
(© Nicole Ostrovsky , IESC)
Jacques Dupont-Roc, future director of LKB at physics
Department of ENS (© Nicole Ostrovsky , IESC)
Villa Menasina in1964
(© Maurice Lévy, IESC
Shark landed in the harbor of Cargèse en 1964 (© Yves Charpak, IESC)
George Charpak- experimenting a solar loop
(© Yves Charpak, IESC)

Georges Charpak building - an environmentally concerned experiment
This project emerged in 2006 from a very simple idea: cross-fertilization among scientists in different
disciplines at the CNRS. In practice taking advance of colleagues from the newly born INES we figured
out a project to build an exemplary zero net energy building in the Mediterranean area with a very low
environmental impact and at reasonable costs.
Briefly the conceptual scheme is based on precise architectural choices coupled to innovative energetic
solutions in the aim to optimize energy consumption and ideally to approach the construction of a zero
net energy building. The project includes from the beginning an experimental ambition. In fact the
experimental validation of performances and realizations is part of the exercise from its very beginning
Architectural choices are simple: a compact design, an inner concrete nucleus highly inert and an
efficient insulation by light exterior walls (refer to photos below). These elementary concepts are
coupled to solar panel production of hot water for heating and sanitary uses. The theoretical estimation
approaches 100% efficiency by a precise optimization of concrete surfaces and reservoir balloons.
Seasonal comfort in summer is provided by natural ventilation coupled to air fan and solar fences.
Specific studies were realized to evaluate precisely the energetic potential with respect to needs so that
the building can definitely be considered as an energetic node able to produce, stock and use energy
according to seasons.
Natural ventilation and its optimization are crucial aspects around which we could gather a number of
scientific projects. Indeed in the context of the project ADN-bati, part of the interdisciplinary CNRS
program on ENERGY, simulation exercises on the air fluxes the rooms of Charpak building were object
of a national benchmark. The ADN-bati project associates several CNRS laboratories - LIMSI
(CNRS/UPMC/Université Paris Sud), LOCIE (CNRS/Université de Savoie) and PIMENT at Reunion
island, Its goal is to develop and optimize theoretical models enabling efficient simulation of air fluxes.
Indeed existing models are not adapted to this particular exercise reduced to the scale of a building.
The figure below illustrates the results from the benchmark. In practice a precise estimation of the size
and position of openings could be achieved (L.Stephan, A.Bastide, E.Wurtz, Optimizing opening
dimensions for naturally ventilated buildings Applied Energy, 88 (2011), pp. 2791-2801).
Charpak building has been chosen as an example of application of the program « solar heating and
cooling » from the international agency for energy « net zero energy building » (www.iea-shc.org/task40/)
and is also integral part of the project ANR 4C (Confort en Climat Chaud sans Climatiser) again
dedicated to the optimization of natural ventilation performances.
As for now the optimization and experimental validation of the solution put in place in Cargèse are
studied by two PhD students at the laboratories G2elab (CNRS/Université Grenoble I/Institut
polytechnique de Grenoble) and LOCIE supervised by INES and IESC.
In the actual societal reality where buildings represent approximately 50% of energetic consumption and
70 % of electric consumption, the charpak building, with its precise attention to summer comfort in hot
Mediterranean climate, has gathered several international and national laboratories participating to IEA.

The school SIMUREX, organized in Cargèse in April 2012, has been the opportunity to bring on site a
large audience of scientists questioning the actual simulation models in the field of energy consumption
and saving.
Contacts scientists :
IESC I Giovanna Chimini I T 06 74 98 27 30 I giovanna.chimini@iesc.univ-corse.fr
INES I Etienne Wurtz I T 06 17 75 64 66 I etienne.wurtz@cea.fr
Views of George Charpak building (© Lisa Ricciotti & Pierre-Eric Grossi, IESC)

Simulation of natural ventilation describing air fluxes in a room of Charpak building (A.Bastide,
PIMENT)
A: Description of limit conditions
B: The field of temperature variation in the room. Pseudo color blue to red identifies minimal to maximal
temperature fields.
C: Evolution of air speed fields, in pseudo color scale from bleu to red are indicated minimal to maximal
speeds.

PARTNERS AND FINANCIAL PLAN
Porteur du projet IESC UMS 820
Maitrise d'ouvrage CNRS DR12
Maitrise d’œuvre VILLA BATTESTI AJACCIO
Bureau d'etudes énergetiques ADRET La Seyne sur Mer
PLAN DE FINANCEMENT DE L'OPERATION IMMOBILIERE
Etat - plan de relance, CPER 2007-13 1 500 000 €
Collectivité Territoriale Corse 410 675 €
CNRS 320 000 €
ADEME
Dont CTC 49 980 €
Dont FEDER 99 960 €
210 595 €
Coût total de l’opération 2 441 270 €
PARTENAIRES ACADEMIQUES INDUSTRIELS
ADN BATI
ANR 4C
IAE
Piment EA 4076 La
Réunion
LOCIE UMR 5271
Chambéry
Piment EA 4076 La
Réunion
LASIE UMR 6250 La
Rochelle
LET UMR 6608
Poitiers
CETHIL UMR 5008
Lyon,
EA GRER
Guadeloupe
LASIE UMR 6250 La
Rochelle
G2elab UMR 5269
Grenoble
PIMENT EA 4076 La
Réunion
Lafarge
SOMFY
SORANE BE
Lausanne,