Radio RFO

TELEVISION AND RADIO RFO

Technical program in areas of extreme climate and seismic risk.

The site for the new Radio and Television station for the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe is situated at the very heart of the island adjacent to the main freeway intersection. The building will be the first to be built in a proposed industrial activity park. Searching for a very special image for RFO, and taking into consideration the unique setting, it was decided to create a building that would be perceived as an architectural ‘land-mark’.The main body of the building takes the form of a 3 storey high 120m long cylinder, clad in aluminium and containing the administrative offices. Three rectangular structures, containing the Radio and TV studios, ‘plug’ into the cylinder. Their facade sare to be clad in screen-printed glass panels. A 30m hightransmission tower punctuates the end of the building.The site is less than a kilometre from a major techtonic fault line and the island is regurlarly subjected to severe tropical hurricanes. As the only broadcasting facility on the island the station is of strategic importance in case of natural disaster.