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Officiellement dmarre en janvier 2001, notre agence est conue comme un atelier, espace o se mlangent ides et travaux pratiques. Les diff-rentes tches propres au travail darchitecture, sont effectues en quipe, ce qui permet dchanger, des ides et des points de vue. Nos quipes sont formes de jeunes architectes venus du monde entier, di-versit que nous dfendons et entretenons, car elle nous aide transgresser les frontires culturelles et gographiques, tre efficaces dans nos projets, sans priori sur leur taille. Nous sommes convaincus que tout ce qui nous entoure reprsente une infime partie de ce quil est possible de raliser, y compris dans larchitecture. La confiance en linfini potentiel humain et linquitude envers les problmes que pose le dveloppement : densification des villes, pollution des sols par lagriculture, puisement des ressources et des matriaux de construction, nous ont appris considrer et explorer toutes les ides potentiellement porteuses de changement. Ce nest pas une question dabstinence ou de dcroissance, mais de dveloppement diffrent. Au moralisme, nous proposons laction: des btiments producteurs dnergie et non consommateurs, une architecture pense globalement, comme une infrastructure, sup-port dun rseau intelligent de production dnergie base des ressources renouvelables.

Nous pensons que toute activit conomique, doit simpliquer dans la production dnergie pour atteindre une masse critique dnergie propre pro-duite. Tous nos projets courants et nos recherches, peu importe leur chelle, prennent en compte les problmes de lnergie, du rchauffement du climat et de la crise financire. Le suivi direct des chantiers place notre agence en premire ligne, en contact avec la production dun btiment, fait qui nous rend conscients de limpor-tance de nos dcisions.

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Officially launched in January 2001, we designed our agency as a studio, a space where ideas and practical work combine. Dedicated to both conception and construction, it is place that aims to foster exchanges on particular themes of practice and architectural production. Our team is made up of young architects from around the world, a diversity that we defend and maintain, helping us break through geographic and cultural boundaries, and become effectual in our pro-jects without relying on preconceptions. with problems arising from development such as the overcrowding of cities, the pollution of soil due to agriculture, the depletion of resources and construction materials, have taught us to consider and explore all potentially promising ideas for change. All our current projects and research, regardless of their individual scale, are engaged in these problems we consider essential. It is probably a delusion to imagine that environmentally harmful economic activity will be transformed by consensual mass abstinence. The current green consciousness and environmental guilt have yet to produce significant change in life as usual attitudes. If the answer to destructive consumerism will not be found in moralizing abstinence, maybe it can be teased out in forms of a new green hedonism.

We think the socio-cultural development of the past century has compromised the notion of progress. Over the past fifty years, on a planetary scale, the de-velopment of cities has been based on an increasingly subjective approach, systematically redirecting efforts away from the progressive and morally-oriented pro-grams of the functional city composed of domesti-city, work, leisure, and transportation infrastructure.

We are convinced that everything surrounding us represents but a minute fraction of its potential, including in architectural terms. Our confidence in humanitys infinite promise and our concern with problems arising from development such as the overcrowding of cities, the pollution of soil due to agriculture, the depletion of resources and construc-tion materials, have taught us to consider and explore all potentially promising ideas for change. Over the past fifty years, on a planetary scale, the development

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Irina CristeaNe Bucarest en 1966Diplme dArchitecte dplg lENSA de Strasbourg en 1995tudes darchitecture la London South Bank niversity et lInstitut Ion Mincu BucarestDepuis 2001 Architecte associe de AZC

Gregoire ZndelN Colmar en 1969Diplme dArchitecte dplg lENSA de Strasbourg en 1995Enseignant lENSA de Strasbourg de 2004-2006Depuis 2001 Architecte associe de AZC

Prix et expositions

2012 3e prix Architriumph pour pont Paris ?2012 Prix Mipim catgorie Meilleur projet rsi-

dentiel pour lImmeuble mixte ZAC Claude Bernard Paris

2011 Finalistes au Festival WAF Barcelone avec le projet de mtro Rennes

2010 Mention spcial AR pour le concours dide eVolo New York

2009 Prix EDF Bas Carbone pour la rnovation dune maison prive Vincennes France

2008 Architecture = sustainable au Pavillon de lArsenal Paris

2005 Award Grand Est for Treasury office building in Muntzenheim - France

Born in Bucharest in 1966Graduated from ENSA Strasbourg in 1995

Architectural studies in London South Bank University and in Bucharest Ion Mincu Institute Since 2001 partner architect of AZC

Born in Colmar in 1969Graduated from ENSA Strasbourg in 1995Visiting lecturer at ENSA Strasbourg between 2004-2006Since 2001 associate architect of AZC

Awards and exhibitions

2012 3 prix Architriumph pour pont Paris2012 Mipim award category Best residential

development for the Mixed-use building Claude Bernard Area in Paris

2011 Finalists at the WAF Barcelona with the metro station project in Rennes

2010 Special mention AR for the eVolo competition New York

2009 EDF low carbon award for the renovation of a single-family house in Vincennes France

2008 Exhibition Architecture = sustainable at the Pavillon de lArsenal in Paris

2005 Award Grand Est for Treasury office building in Muntzenheim - France

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LECLERC 122 Boulogne (92), France

Bureaux et enseignement tude en cours Working spaces In progress 2014

Rhabilitation et extension dun immeuble de bureauxLe projet consiste en la rnovation du btiment B dune surface existante de 10.402m, de la refonte de la faade, y compris de sa structure, et dune rnovation des quipements techniques et loptimisation des surfaces des bureaux. Le problme nergtique sera rsolu par une approche subtile visant une mise aux normes sur mesure des faades et des quipements et non pas une application brutale des rglementations. La nouvelle peau du btiment sera une double faade ventile de faible paisseur. chaque tage, nous proposons des loggias plantes, des vritables poumons verts du btiment. Notre proposition privilgie une gnrosit despace, de lumire, de confort et de bien tre. Les loggias plantes prvues sur le pignon Sud, vont apporter une plus value architecturale non ngligeable, sans perdre de la Surface Utile. Elles seront amnages comme des petits jardins ventils naturellement, des espaces de respiration pour la vue et les pauses des utilisateurs.

Office Building renovation and extensionThe project consists of the renovation of building Bs existing 10,402m surface area, the redesign of the facade taking into account the overall structure, the renovation of the technical premises, and the optimizing of office surface space. The problem of energy will be approached subtly, with the aim of upgrading the efficiency of the facades and facilities to measure, rather that simply applying current regulations brutally. The buildings new skin will be a double ventilated faade of slight thickness.On each floor there will be plant-filled loggias acting as the veritable green lungs of the building. Our proposition highlights generosity of space, light, comfort, and wellbeing. The loggia green spaces planned at the southern structural wall carry important, additional architectural value, without the loss of Useable Surface. They will function like small gardens, naturally ventilated, spaces in which the buildings users can pause, take a breath, take in the view.

LECLERC 122 Boulogne (92), France

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Client GECINA

surfaCe 10 544 m

Cot 12,25 M ht

Consultants SETEC

environnement HQE-Ronovation 2010 Certification LEED Core & Shell 2009 HEQ 2010 for renovation Certification LEED Core & Shell 2009

PACEMAR Suresnes (92), France

Rnovation dun immeuble de bureauxLa rhabilitation est aujourdhui un sujet transversal fondamental qui permet de rpondre lpuisement des ressources naturelles non renouvelables par une requalification gnrale des constructions : nergtique, architecturale, technique, conomique et sociale. La forme initiale du btiment, avec ses plateaux distribus sur deux directions principales, nous a aids le rinventer. Sans trop nous carter de la logique structurelle initiale, nous avons dcid den tirer parti et de crer des boucles chaque tage. Cette organisation autour des noyaux permet de conserver un nombre rduit dissues de secours et descaliers, tout en respectant les normes de scurit incendie. Lvidement par des percements verticaux au milieu des plateaux permet dapporter de la lumire naturelle au cur du btiment. La forme arrondie des plateaux permet de donner aux faades et au volume final de la douceur, et damorcer langle de la rue dune manire harmonieuse et lgante.

Office Building renovationBuilding rehabilitation is a fundamental issue traversing many aspects of our work today. It grants us a means for responding to the depletion of non-renewable natural resources, and prompts a general reimagining of buildings in energy efficient, architectural, technical, economic, and social terms. The buildings initial form, with its floors distributed in two main directions, helped us reinvent it. Without departing significantly from this initial structural logic, we took advantage of it by devising loops in the layout of each level. This organization around a center allowed us to conserve a reduced number of security exits and stairwells, while respecting fire regulations. The cutting out of vertical openings in the middle of each floor allows natural light to reach the heart of the building. The rounded form of the floors transmits softness to the facades as well as to the buildings integral final volume, allowing it to come up to the street at a harmonious and elegant angle.

Client Louis Dreyfus Armateurs

surfaCe 4 933 m shon

Cot 10 M ht

Consultants Batiserf / Choulet / Forgue / VS-A / PCA

environnement RT 2012 / RT 2012 (French energy regulation)

PACEMAR Suresnes (92), France

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CFM / EDF Saclay (91), France

Bureaux et enseignement Concours Working spaces Competition 2011

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Centre de formation pour EDFSitu au sud-ouest de Paris, le plateau de Saclay accueille depuis quelques dcennies plusieurs tablissements nationaux franais ainsi que des centres de recherche dentreprises prives.Parmi les nouveaux acteurs conomiques prsents Saclay, EDF envisage la construction de deux tablissements : un Centre de Recherche et Dveloppement et un Centre de Formation pour les mtiers dEDF. Le programme sorganise sur une trame orthogonale autour de llment principal du projet qui est lagora, pour constituer un ensemble cohrent, imbriquant espaces hauteur normale et espaces grande hauteur. Toute la varit volumtrique exige par les besoins prcis et varis des divers programmes gnre un ensemble architectural dans lequel chaque fonction peut trouver sa niche optimale . Grace de leurs complmentarits, les diffrents programmes peuvent former une symbiose architecturale, un btiment unique, structur comme une ville dans laquelle chaque fonction trouve sa place idale.

Training center for EDFLocated in the southwest of Paris, the Saclay Plateau has been the home for decades to a number of French national institutions as well as several private business research centers. As one of the new economic players present at Saclay, EDF envisions the construction of two new establishments: a Center for Research and Development and a Training Center for EDF employees. The program spreads out on an orthogonal grid around the principal agora element, forming a coherent whole, with overlapping average height spaces and large height spaces. The variety of volumes necessitated by the diverse and precise needs of the diverse programmatic elements generates an architectural whole where each function finds its optimal niche. Thanks to their complementary qualities, the different elements come together in architectural symbiosis to form a unique building, structured like a city in which each function finds its ideal place.

Client EDF


Cot 47,2M ht

Consultants Batiserf / Igrec / V-SA / Transsolar / Lamoureux Acoustique

environnement Certification NF HQE Btiments tertiaires + BREEAM HEQ certification for tertiary buildings + BREEAM


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VEVEY Vevey (CH)

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Immeuble mixte comprenant bureaux, crche et commercesSitu entre deux voies dpartementales, le site bnficie dune position avantageuse et dune visibilit sans gale. Cependant cette situation a une contrepartie : le bruit. En prenant en compte cette importante contrainte, nous avons dcid de travailler lenveloppe du btiment en double peau. Ainsi, ce qui aurait pu rester un banal difice de bureaux en blanc, prend son originalit grce au traitement des faades, ralises par un assemblage de panneaux de forme losange prfabriqus en aluminium et verre. Leffet de modnature donn par la rgularit et leur lgre inclinaison, rompt lempilement des tages, modifie lchelle et renforce lurbanit du btiment. Tirant profit du dnivel entre les deux avenues, le rez-de-chausse se ddouble pour accueillir en partie basse des locaux de service propres au fonctionnement du btiment et en partie haute la crche demande par le programme.

Mixed-use building including offices, kindergarten and storesLocated between two district highways, the site benefits from an advantageous position and a visibility without equal. There is a drawback to this location, however: the noise. Taking into account this significant constraint, we decided to design the buildings casing as a double skin. Consequently, what might have remained a common white office building, gains originality from the way in which its facades are considered, constructed through the assembly of two types of prefabricated diamond-shaped panels. The molding effect created by the regularity of the panels, with their slight tilt and inclination, breaks the sight of a stacking of floors, altering and enhancing the urban scale of the building. Taking advantage of the difference in elevation between the two avenues, the ground-floor is split and doubled. Its lower part used as access for the service needs relevant to the functioning of the building; its upper part used as access to the nursery required by the project.

Client Ville de Vevey City of Vevey


Cot 10 M ht

assoCis Architram

environnement HQE / HEQ THPE

VEVEY Vevey (CH)

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EVOLO 10 Paris (75), France

Tour multiactivits comprenant bureaux, bibliothque, piscineNous avons imagin une tour partir dun volume de dpart, qui est une texture spatiale , forme de dalles empiles verticalement sur une hauteur de 200 mtres. Nous appelons texture spatiale, lensemble dlments qui ont les mmes proprits de structure, de gomtrie et de surface. Dans cette texture pleine, nous avons appliqu un processus dynamique de gnration dun tube vide gomtrie variable. Litinraire du tube vide est celui dun corps humain imagin en dplacement lent, en promenade. La seule contrainte est de toujours avancer en montant, sans sortir du gabarit. Il ny a pas dalgorithme davancement du vide, les seules rgles tant donnes par des manipulations simples mais conscutives : avancement, pliage, contraction, expansion, rotation. Sa topologie va nous aider dcrire des proprits telles que la proximit, la contigut, la continuit.

Multi-activity skyscraper including offices, library, swimming poolAt the outset, we imagined the tower from an initial volume, which we considered a spatial texture, consisting of slabs stacked vertically to a height of 200 meters. We call spatial texture the totality of elements that contain the same properties of structure, geometry, and surface area. Within this solid and uniform texture, we applied a dynamic formation process utilizing an empty tube of manifold geometry. In motion, this cavity becomes a generator of space, a dynamic, fluctuating, and evolving construct. The empty tubes path follows that of an imagined human body in slow motion, on a walk. The only constraint being the tube must continually move upward without leaving the textures template. There is no algorithm for how the cavity should advance through the texture, the only rules provided by the simple but consecutive manipulations of: advancement, folding, contraction, expansion, rotation. The cavity can be determined exactly, calculated, proportioned and inhabited variously. Its topology will help us delineate such properties as proximity, contiguity, continuity.

Client Confidential


Cot 300 M ht

Consultants BET Choulet

environnement HQE / HEQ


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TRSORERIE Muntzenheim (68), France

Bureaux et enseignement Ralisation Working spaces Completed 2005

Immeuble de bureauxLe programme consistait en 190 m utiles de bureaux, incluant un accueil pour le public, des archives, une caftria et un local pour le coffre-fort. Pour rester dans la mme catgorie de matriaux que celle du nouveau complexe culturel voisin, mais aussi pour rpondre un problme de cot, nous avons propos dutiliser le principe de construction mtallique CIBBAP. Celle-ci se prsente sous la forme de profils en U de 40 cm de large servant tant pour le bardage que pour la structure porteuse. Pour la trsorerie, nous nous sommes restreints lutilisation de ce seul matriau afin quelle garde une force et une lisibilit dans le paysage, malgr sa petitesse et son isolement. Il en rsulte un btiment dune apparence trs homogne qui, grce son socle construit en retrait, semble flotter au-dessus des champs. La seule ouverture visible depuis lextrieur est le pignon sud, entirement vitr, qui sert dentre pour le public.

Office buildingThe project consisted of utilizing 190 m for the offices, which were to include a public reception area, archival premises, a cafeteria, as well as premises for the strong-lock. To remain within the same category of materials used by the newly built neighboring cultural complex, but also as a response to cost issues, we proposed utilizing the CIBBAP principle of metal construction, according to which 40 cm wide U shaped sections function equally for the cladding as for the bearing structure. For the treasury offices, we restricted ourselves to the utilization of only this one material so that the structure would retain a strength and clarity in the landscape, despite its small size and isolation. The result is a building of very homogenous appearance that, thanks to its base built set back, seems to float above the field. The only opening visible from the outside is the southern gable, which is entirely made of glass, and functions as the public entrance.

Client COM CO du Pays du Ried Brun

surfaCe 290 m shon

Cot 0,22 M ht

Consultants BET SBE


TRSORERIE Muntzenheim (68), France

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Bureaux et enseignement Ralisation Working spaces Completed 2005

DESCARTES Paris (75), France

Bureaux et enseignement Chantier en cours Working spaces Under construction 2012

Dmolition et reconstruction de deux amphithtres universitaires de 200 placesLUniversit Paris Descartes, dsire aujourdhui remplacer les deux amphithtres de lIUT existants au milieu de sa cour intrieure. La situation physique des deux btiments, difis en coeur dlot, sur la dalle du parking de luniversit, nous confronte avec un exercice complexe de conception et de programmation de lopration. Verticalement, une hauteur rduite des amphithtres, va contribuer amliorer la perception de lensemble. conomiser un ascenseur, rendre compacts et densifier les espaces, sans nuire au fonctionnement, disposer les fonctions au plus juste selon lusage, sont des actes thiques darchitecture. Esthtiquement parlant, le projet vise produire un maximum deffet, du confort visuel et motionnel. Dans ce projet particulier, le volume construit compte autant que le vide rsiduel quil va gnrer autour. Nous avons conu la forme la plus compacte, habille par un matriau unique, le bois.

Demolition and reconstruction of two 200-seat university lecture halls

The University of Paris-Descartes wishes to replace its two IUT amphitheaters that stand in the interior courtyard of 143, avenue de Versailles, in the 16th arrondissement. The physical location of the two buildings, constructed in the heart of an urban islet, and resting atop the university parking lots, confronted us with a complex exercise in conceiving and planning our operation. Vertically, a reduction in the height of the amphitheaters would contribute to an improved perception of their whole. Economizing the costs of elevators, rendering the areas compact and dense, without negatively affecting the buildings functioning, moreover brining each buildings functions to a level in correspondence with their usage, are ethical acts of architecture. Aesthetically speaking, the project aims to produce a maximum of effect through providing visual and emotional comfort. Within this particular project, the constructed volume is as important as the residual emptiness that will be generated around it. We designed the most compact of forms possible, covering it with the single material of wood.

Client Universit Paris Descartes

surfaCe 906 m shon

Cot 2,8 M ht

Consultants Choulet / Forgue / Batiserf

environnement BBC Plan Climat de la Ville de Paris Low energy building Climate plan City of Paris

DESCARTES Paris (75), France

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Bureaux et enseignement Chantier en cours Working spaces Under construction 2012

ML 14 Paris (75), France

Infrastructure tude en cours Public facilities In progress 2017

4 stations de mtro pour le prolongement de la ligne 14Notre projet concerne quatre nouvelles stations du mtro parisien, qui prolongent la ligne 14 aprs la gare St. Lazare: Pont Cardinet, Porte de Clichy, Clichy St. Ouen et Mairie de St. Ouen. Le programme, labor par la RATP, prsente les enjeux et les ambitions de cette nouvelle gnration despaces voyageurs. Un point qui nous parait important dans ce projet, cest la volont dengager un dveloppement urbain coordonn dans lequel les stations possderont des extensions : btiments, halls, commerces, etc. destins diversifier loffre des services associs au parcours du citadin dans la ville. Cette possibilit de mga connexion, permettra aux individus de satisfaire certaines de leurs activits (commerces, loisirs) sans se dtourner du parcours journalier maison travail. Lespace devra transmettre lambiance foisonnante, dynamique et urbaine de la mtropole du 21e sicle. Nous allons aborder le projet dune manire globale et dcomplexe, trs confiants dans lnorme potentiel dune nouvelle image architecturale.

4 metro stations in an extension of line 14Our project concerns four new Parisian metro stations that will extend line 14 past its current St. Lazare station terminus, with locations at Pont Cardinet, Porte de Clichy, Clichy St. Ouen, and Mairie de St. Ouen. The program, developed by the RATP, addresses what is at stake for, as well as the ambitions of, a new generation of travellers through urban space. Of particular importance for us in the envisioning of this project is the willingness to engage in coordinated urban development in which the stations contain extensions for buildings, market halls, businesses, etc., all intended to diversify the services available to urban residents on their course through the city. This possibility of a mega-connection will allow individuals to carry out certain of their (shopping, recreational) activities without the necessity of detouring from their daily home to work round-trip route. The space will exude the dynamic, urban, buzzing atmosphere of the 21st century metropolis. Confident in the enormous potential of a new architectural image, we have maintained an open and global approach to the project, free of preconceived notions.

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Client RATP

assoCis Architram

environnement co-conception

ML 14 Paris (75), France

MLB1 Rennes (35), France

3 nouvelles stations pour la ligne BLa recherche montre que les lignes permanentes de transport en commun, savoir les rails du mtro, jouent un rle essentiel pour attirer le dveloppement conomique harmonieux des diffrents quartiers des villes, qui ne cessent de staler vers des nouvelles priphries.Notre projet pour la station Saint Germain Rennes, tente de rendre visible cette nouvelle conception de la signification urbaine du mtro en se concentrant sur la lisibilit et la qualit de lespace de la station. Nous avons souhait, dans un premier temps, revenir aux fondamentaux du mtro et nommer les qualits ncessaires une station ddie ce moyen de transport : lisibilit, fonctionnalit, durabilit, accessibilit, scurit. Le traitement des circulations tient dans notre projet une place prpondrante : pas de couloir aveugle, de cul de sac ou de corridors interminables et mal clairs. Les circulations sont baignes de lumire, souvrent sur des vues intrieures varies, elles autorisent un parcours clair travers les niveaux, tout en rpondant aux contraintes de gestion des flux et de scurit.

3 metro stations on line BResearch shows that the existence of permanent lines of public transport, namely those of a metro, play an essential role in spurring on harmonious economic development throughout a citys diverse neighborhoods, a process that spreads outwards towards newer suburbs. Our project for the Saint Germain metro station in Rennes attempts to render concrete and visible this new conception of the metros urban significance by concentrating on intelligibility and on the quality of the stations space. We wanted, from the first, to return to the fundamentals of the necessary qualities of a station dedicated to this means of transport: intelligibility, functionality, durability, accessibility, security. In our project, the treatment of the circulation pathways takes on a prominent position: no blind alleys or dead ends, no endless and poorly lit corridors. The pathways will be brightly lit, opening out upon a variety of interior views, allowing a clear path from one level to the next, without impeding on the requirements of workflow management and security.

Client SEMTCAR

assoCis Architram


MLB1 Rennes (35), France

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TERREFORM10 Chicago (USA)

Infrastructure Concours Public facilities Competition 2010

Parkings, potagers urbain et logementsApres des dcennies de fabrication dune ville quadrille et minrale, ddie lautomobile et aux activits tertiaires, lefficacit et au progrs , les socits urbaines se trouvent aujourdhui dans une priode extrmement intressante : de glissement des valeurs conomiques vers des valeurs cologiques. Notre urbanisme et notre langage architectural vont tenir dsormais compte des changements qui sont en train de se produire. Les potagers de ville sont des structures ouvertes de production agricole avec des units de transformation des produits: restaurants, cantines scolaires, fabriques de conserves. Ils encouragent la promotion dune conscience publique des traditions culinaires et des murs, le respect de lenvironnement et les initiatives de solidarit dans le domaine alimentaire. Autonomes nergtiquement et physiquement proches des consommateurs, les potagers deviennent des facteurs dun nouvel urbanisme qui soppose aux effets dgradants de lindustrie et la culture du fast food qui standardisent les gots.

Car park, urban food production and housingAfter decades of thinking of the city as gridded and mineral-based, dedicated to the car and the service sector, to efficiency and to progress, today urban societies find themselves at the center of an interesting shift: one transforming the values of economy into the values of ecology. Our planning and architectural languages will, from here on, account for these changes. These city garden can function for agricultural production and subsequent transformation into foodstuffs: restaurants, school canteens, bottling, filling or cannery sites...They encourage the promotion of a collective consciousness around notions of cooking and table arts, environmental respect, and the solidarity of nourishment. Crowned with city wind turbines and physically close to end-users, the gardens form a new city landscape in opposition to certain degrading effects of industrialisation and the standardisations of fast-food culture.

Client TERREFORM

Consultants Batiserf



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ZCBB3 Paris (75), France

Logements Ralisation Housing Completed 2011

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Immeuble mixte comprenant Ehpad, logements et commercesLa ZAC Claude Bernard se situe dans le 19e arrondissement de Paris, sur un terrain de 3.6 ha entre le boulevard Macdonald au sud et le Priphrique au nord. Llot B3 est un immeuble mixte qui empile trois programmes diffrents : des commerces, une maison de retraite et des logements en accession. Notre objectif initial, qui concerne la qualit de vie, la lumire et le confort des habitations, nous a pousss travailler de manire prcise la rpartition des chambres et des espaces communs des deux programmes : maison de retraite et logements. Lenjeu est de rendre des logements collectifs efficaces et dsirables, de produire autour de chacun un espace le plus gnreux, le plus accessible et le plus confortable. Ct sud, les faades reculent librement pour former des respirations dans la masse btie qui seront de loggias linaires. En partie suprieure, les mouvements des faades et des dalles, combins avec les retraits successifs, marquent le changement de fonction.

Mixed-use building including retirement home, housing units and activity premisesThe urban development zone (ZAC) Claude Bernard is situated in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, on a 3.6ha vast area, between the boulevard Macdonald in the south and the highway in the nord. Block B3 is a mixed-use building, made of three different programs : retail space, a retirement home and private housing units. Our initial goal regarding the quality of life, light and the comfort of the housing units, pushed us to work very precisely on the distribution of the rooms and spaces that are common to both programs : retirement home and housing units. The challenge was to render the housing units efficient and desirable, to produce generous spaces that are perfectly accessible and comfortable. On the south-facing side, the outer walls recede freely to form breaths in the assembled mass, and become a linear set of mezzanines. In the buildings upper part, the movements of the outer walls and paving slabs, combined with a successive shrinkage, signal a change in function.

Client BNP Paribas (Meunier Habitat)

Consultants Griveau / MCI / ELAN

Cot 15 M ht


environnement Plan Climat de la Ville de Paris Climate plan City of Paris

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ZDP4 Pantin (93), France

Logements tudes en cours Housing In progress 2015

ZDP4 Pantin (93), France

120 logements neufs, activitsLa fabrication de llot 04, qui comporte 60+60 logements, est le rsultat dun atelier commun avec lagence Cantin Planchez. Cette collaboration nous a permis de rflchir de manire la fois libre et prospective sur la question du logement, dans une relle diversit de dispositifs volumtriques, duplex, lofts, maisons, terrasses, balcons loggias, jardins Le nouvel ensemble, propose une varit architecturale assume, qui rpond lchelle territoriale du site et au caractre domestique des programmes. Le site se distingue par le caractre la fois portuaire et urbain de son espace public qui sadapte aux lments forts de la ville et joue avec le grand paysage. Inspir des immeubles portuaires et des docs, notre projet propose la fois des logements collectifs et des habitations de type maisons presque individuelles. Leurs qualits et leur cot moderne et rassurant, seront obtenus par la rigueur des dessins des baies, le choix des matriaux des faades, lemploi des couleurs lumineuses.

120 housing units activity premisesThe manufacture of the block 04, made of 60 + 60 housing units, is the result of a joint workshop of the architectural firm Cantin Planchez . This collaboration has allowed us to approach the issue of housing in a free and insightful way. We therefore propose a diversity of volumetric devices, duplexes, lofts, houses, terraces, balconies, loggias, gardens The new entity offers an architectural variety which responds to the urban scale of the site as well as to the domestic character of its program. The site distinguishes itself by the relation to the port and the urban space. This situation generates a public space that adapts to the key urban elements and in the same time interferes with the surrounding landscape. Inspired by the ports surrounding buildings, our project offers collective housing as well as individual house-type units. These qualities, as the modern and reassuring aspect, are obtained due to the rigour of the bay design, the choice of the materials and the use of bright colours.

Client Nexity

amnageur Ville de Pantin

Cot NC


arChiteCtes AZC + Cantin & Planchez

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TERRASSE 9 Nanterre (92), France

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Client Bouygues Immobilier


Cot 20 M ht

arChiteCtes AZC

Consultants Bouygues Batiment Cardonnel Ingnierie

environnement BEPAS / BEPOS passive-positive energy building

140 logements neufs, quipement culturel, centre daffairesLe projet SEINE-ARCHE concerne un terrain exceptionnellement vaste, en prolongement de laxe de la Dfense, o gare de triage, chantier de chemin de fer, autoroute et parking sauvage restent urbaniser. Lilot appartenant la 9e terrasse, mesure 113m environ par 21m de large. Afin dviter leffet massif, le cahier des charges propose des modalits de dcoupage et de squenage des volumes. ces diffrentes rgles de retrait, nous proposons une rponse simple, savoir une organisation en trois volumes principaux partir dun grand socle commun en R+3. Leurs dimensions en plans permettent lamnagement dun maximum de logements et despaces dactivits, comportant des doubles orientations. Llot 9 constitue un ensemble cohrent quel que soit le type de programme dvelopp chaque niveau. Les faades assument avec clart les deux concepts du dpart : pour le socle qui se continue avec le btiment cran une expression urbaine, pour les deux immeubles lest une expression plus libre, paysagre.

140 new housing units, cultural facilities, business centerThe SEINE-ARCHE project, extending out from the axis of La Dfense, encompasses an exceptionally vast terrain, in which a train classification yard, railroad site, segment of highway, areas used for unregulated parking, all remain to be urbanized. The block is within Nanterres municipal 9th Terrace, measuring around 113 meters by 21m wide. With the intention of avoiding an effect of mass, the building specifications describe procedures for the cutting and sequencing of volumes. To these various rules of building positioning, we propose a simple response: an organization of three principal volumes stemming from a large common base structure (ground floor + 3). Their dimensions in design allow the development of the maximum quantity of residential housing and activity space, equipped with double orientation. The Nanterre Terrace 9 block makes up a coherent whole, responding to its programmatic needs at each level. The facades present with clarity the projects two primary concepts: the base with its continuous building expresses the urban element, while the two buildings express the more spontaneous element of the landscape.

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NDBS Paris (75), France

Sant Chantier en cours Health Under construction 2013

Ensemble mdico-social comprenant Ehpad, FAM et crcheNous proposons un projet urbain en cohrence dchelle avec son voisinage. Un projet moderne inscrit dans son poque et dans lvolution des pratiques des soins et de lhabitation. Lhtrognit structure du monde rel se reflte dans notre projet travers une stratification spatiale horizontale. Pour matriser lchelle de lensemble par une rpartition lisible, distincte et compacte des trois principaux programmes, EHPAD, FAM et CRECHE, nous avons retenu la solution spatiale suivante: rez-de-chausse rserv aux accs et aux espaces communs et la Crche, les deux premiers tages rservs exclusivement lhbergement, le troisime tage rserv aux grandes terrasses communes et aux activits, les quatrime et cinquime tage (pour lEHPAD) rservs aux units dhbergement. Les sous sols sont relies par une galerie logistique. Linterface rsident/vie extrieure se joue dans des dispositifs sociaux chelle humaine : terrasse collective et jardins ouverts, vues vers lextrieur...

Health care complex including retirement home, medical care center and kindergartenWe propose an urban project whose scale is consistent with its surrounding neighbors. A modern project taking note of its era, as well as of the progressive changes in elderly care and housing practices. The structured heterogeneity of the real world is reflected in our project by means of a spatial horizontal stratification. To control the scale of the establishments whole through a legible, distinct, and compact distribution of its three principal areas, the nursing home, FAM, and the nursery, we decided on the following spatial organization: the ground floor is reserved for an entrance area, communal spaces, and for the nursery, the first two floors are reserved exclusively for housing, the third floor for large communal terraces as well as for organized activity space, the fourth and fifth for the nursing homes housing units. The basement areas are connected via a logistical gallery. The interface between residential life and life outside comes into play in the projects human-scale social apparatus: communal, open gardens and terraces, views facing the outside...

Client I3F


Cot 30 M ht

Consultants Igrec Ingnierie / Atelier Villes et paysages

environnement HQE / HEQ BBC / low energy building

NDBS Paris (75), France

FR EN

Sant Chantier en cours Health Under construction 2013

LIMAY Limay (78520), France

Sant Ralisation Health Completed 2012

Foyer daccueil mdicalis de 55 chambresNotre projet joue sur lquilibre (et le dsquilibre) entre le plein et le vide, considrs tous deux comme de la matire, autrement dit entre les espaces intrieurs et les espaces extrieurs. Contrairement aux espaces programmatiques, qui sassocient des fonctions prcises, lespacement, envahi par la nature procure une respiration, une dtente, un peu de libert et dfinit des lieux du possible. Pour lensemble des quatre units il y a 6 patios plants : deux grands jardins de 350m partager, quatre autres intrieurs chaque unit, clairant les circulations vers les chambres. Le grand jardin ouvert, accessible tous, se situe lEst du terrain. Le couloir, qui permet la distribution efficace des espaces se dilate, se transforme, varie. La palette de matriaux et des couleurs sert aussi cette diversit. Lespace du cheminement est dynamis, il devient opportunit daction spontane, de rencontres, de sollicitations sensorielles.

55-room medical care centerOur project engages in an equilibrium (and disequilibrium) between the full and the empty, in other words between interior and exterior spaces, approaching both as materials. Contrary to programmed spaces, which are associated with specific functions, spacing pervaded by nature acquires a relaxing breath and a little freedom in defining its possible spaces. There are six internal courtyards situated within the four unit complex: two large communal gardens of 350m, with four others interior to each unit, which light the way of the paths toward the rooms. The large open garden, accessible to all, is located in the eastern part of the grounds. The passageway, which creates an efficient distribution of space, expands, transforms, varies. The palette of materials and colors also contains this diversity. Thus the space of the passageway is invigorated, becoming favorable to spontaneous action, to meetings, to sensory requests.

Client SARRY 78 / SIEHVS


Cot 7,5 M ht

Consultants BET SBE / E3 conomie

environnement


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RIEDISHEIM Riedisheim (68), France

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Maison de retraite de 67 litsCette maison de retraite se situe sur les hauteurs de Riedisheim (dans la banlieue de Mulhouse), au milieu dun quartier rsidentiel. La conjonction de contraintes gophysiques et rglementaires rendait ce terrain difficile construire. Ces conditions nous ont amens dvelopper tout le programme dans une construction qui pouse la forme et les contraintes du terrain. Le btiment se dploie en longueur, de lest vers louest, et en hauteur, sur quatre plateaux, dcals les uns par rapport aux autres, en suivant la pente naturelle. Les toitures, visibles depuis la voie principale daccs en haut du terrain, sont toutes plantes, ce qui amortit limpact de la construction dans le voisinage. On a fractionn la longueur de ldifice, en petits modules lchelle de quelques chambres, afin de lintgrer dans lenvironnement pavillonnaire. Ces interruptions font entrer gnreusement la lumire naturelle dans les circulations intrieures de tous les tages. Lensemble du btiment est bard de bois dont le contact rassurant est prsent au centre de la vie des rsidents.

67-bed retirement homeThis retirement home is located on the heights of Riedisheim (a suburb of Mulhouse), in a residential neighborhood. The conjunction of geophysical and regulatory constraints rendered this plot of land difficult to build upon. These conditions led us to develop the entire project within a construction adopted to the form and constraints of the land. The building unfolds in length from east to west, while its height, made of up of four trays slightly shifting away from one another, follows the natural slope. The roofs, visible from the principal access road located at the top of the plot, are all planted, which helped dampen the impact of construction in the neighborhood. We divided the length of the building into little modules the size of several rooms, in order to better integrate the length within the residential environment. These interruptions bring about the entry of a generous amount of natural light into the interior circulatory paths of all floors. The building complex is covered in wood, whose reassuring touch is present at the center of the lives of residents.

Client COM CO des Collines


Cot 5,3 M ht

Consultants OTH Est



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UMB Brumath (67170)

Unit mre bb, hpital psychiatrique et accueil de jourLe programme demandait la ralisation dun Hpital de Jour, dune unit Temps Plein, des locaux communs et des bureaux de consultation, chaque ensemble devant possder sa propre entre. limage des pavillons existants, nous avons ralis lUMB selon un U ouvert au sud et enfermant un jardin. Les units Temps Plein et Hpital de Jour ont t places au rez-de-chausse en vis--vis par rapport au jardin et spares par les locaux communs qui occupent la partie centrale. Lambiance, est limage des pavillons japonais traditionnels, organise autour dun morceau de nature comme cadre de contemplation. Llment qui renvoie ce rapport spatial spcifique, est la coursive continue et couverte qui relie les trois entits et assure la transition entre lintrieur et lextrieur. Le jardin se prolonge lintrieur par deux patios qui marquent les entres principales. Ainsi, la premire perception en arrivant dans les halls dentre est une vue sur le jardin.

Mother & baby care center, psychiatric hospital and day careThe project included the completion, within the UMB, of a Day Hospital, a Full Time department, communal areas and consultation offices, with each of these sections requiring their own entrance. In the image of the establishments existing pavilions, in the south of the grounds, the UMB was completed in the shape of an open U, enclosing a garden. The ambience, in the image of traditional Japanese pavilions, centers around a piece of nature, thereby creating a contemplative setting. The continuous, covered walkway linking the three entities, providing a smooth transition between interior and exterior, is an element that reflects this specific spatial relationship. The garden extends to the interior via two courtyards that stand next to the main entrances. Thus, the first sight upon arriving at one of the entrance halls is a view through to the garden.

Client EPSAN


Cot 2 M ht

Consultants SIRR


UMB Brumath (67170)

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MONCONSEIL Tours (37000), France

Ehad de 84 lits dont deux units psycho-griatriquesCette maison de retraite est un des premiers btiments sortis de terre dans la ZAC Monconseil, nouvel coquartier en plein chantier situ au Nord de Tours. Les rglements durbanisme de la ZAC prconisaient un quipement tourn vers la ville, aussi haut que possible et en parfait alignement sur la rue. Puisque le rsultat tendait vers une barre, le projet devait lassumer tout en cherchant les moyens de la rendre moins longue. Ainsi, si nous ne pouvions dcouper le volume en plusieurs plots, il nous fallait russir le faire par lintrieur, et cela sest fait par les circulations. Elles sont en effet des espaces majeurs, de vritables pices vivre, car, pour des personnes ges qui sortent peu, elles sont le prolongement direct de leur chambre. Nous avons propos de jouer avec la matire mme du bton de sorte faire apparatre, au moyen dun sablage, des motifs de tapisseries sur toutes les faades.

84-bed retirement home with two psycho-geriatric unitsThe Monconseil retirement home is one of the first buildings to be erected in ZAC Monconseil, the new ecological district under construction just north of Tours. The urban regulations endorsed a construction orientated towards the city, on several floors and perfectly aligned to the road. Once confronted with this typology, we had to find ways of reducing the length of the building. As we were unable to divide it into separate parts, we did so interiorly, by separating the corridors. These corridors became significant living spaces for the elderly who go out rarely, a kind of extension to their bedrooms. There was a nice opportunity to work the concrete. Instead of using paint, we opted for a tapestry pattern on the concrete through sandblasting.

Client CCAS City of Tours


Cot 7,5 M ht

Consultants BET OTE

environnement


FR EN

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CLM Champigny (94500), France

Clinique de 100 lits adapte la rducation et aux soins de suiteLtablissement comprend 90 lits et 10 places en accueil de jour. Le projet se dveloppe en longueur sur environ 75m pour 17,5m de large et comporte quatre niveaux (R+3) et un sous-sol partiel. Le btiment est implant au milieu du terrain selon laxe nord-sud. Il esten retrait de 10m environ par rapport la rue pour dgager un parvis dentre et dune dizaine de mtres environ des limites mitoyennes. Les chambres et les espaces de vie sont orients est-ouest. Les faades sont prvues en bardage acier nervur pr laqu. Les abords du btiment sont amnags avec des espaces verts, un parking vhicules de 38 places et un parking pour les deux roues de 15 places. Le Projet a t labor suivant un dmarche environnementale dans laquelle la cible nergtique a t prioritaire : isolation par lextrieur ; double flux avec rcupration de chaleur ; chaudire condensation ; doubles vitrages performants.

100-bed clinic for reeduction and long-terme careThe Hospital accommodates 90 beds with 10 additional beds for day patients. Developed to a length of 75m by a 17,5m width, the project is composed of four floors and a partial basement. The building is situated in the center of the site along the north-south axis. It is set back around 10m from the street so as to leave space for an entry courtyard. It is also set back about 12 meters from its surrounding neighbors. The rooms and living spaces are oriented east-west. The facades are in ribbed, pre-enameled steel siding. The building is surrounded with green spaces, a 38-space parking lot, and a 15-space two-wheel vehicle parking lot. In accordance with an environmental approach in which targeting energy concerns became a priority, the project was enhanced by: insulation of the exterior; double air flow with heat recovery; a condensing boiler; high-performance double glazing.

Client Gnrale de Sant


Cot 10,5 M ht

Consultants BET CET



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NEUDORF Strasbourg (67), France

Culture & sport tude en cours Culture & sports In progress 2013

Salle omnisports et salle descrimeNotre approche se veut pragmatique, la plus compacte possible. La forme et laspect du btiment devront tre totalement intgrs sa future situation en zone urbaine dense. Notre projet rpond un double enjeu : celui dune expression contemporaine ambitieuse et celui dun dialogue respectueux avec son environnement. lintrieur du gymnase, les matriaux choisis respectent la charte des quipements publics fortement sollicits lusure : les cloisons sparatrices des vestiaires seront prvues en maonnerie avec une finition en peintures rsistantes aux chocs et lessivables, les sols en carrelages. Dans le hall dentre, le sol sera recouvert dune rsine haute rsistance, les panneaux prfabriqus en bois assureront lacoustique sur lensemble du btiment, les luminaires seront encastrs et protgs par des grilles rsistantes aux chocs. Par lorganisation spatiale claire, lisible et fluide, nous avons tent de faire de ce btiment un outil efficace au service de la communaut.

Sports and fencing hallOur pragmatic approach to the program is kept as compact as possible. The buildings shape and aspect will be totally integrated into this future dense urban zone in which it is located. Our project responds to a double challenge: that of providing an ambitious contemporary expression and that of maintaining a respectful dialogue with the environment. Inside the gymnasium, the chosen materials follow a strongly recommended plan for public facilities in how to address wear and tear: the partition walls of the locker-rooms will be constructed in brick over which a washable paint finish resistant to shocks will be placed, the floors will be tiled. In the entrance hall, the ground will be coated with a high resistance resin, while prefabricated wood paneling insures fine acoustics throughout the buildings entirety. The lighting will be recessed, protected by shock resistant grills. In its clear, intelligible, and fluid spatial organization, we attempted to render this building an effective tool at the service of the community.

NEUDORF Strasbourg (67), France

Client Ville de Strasbourg


Cot 6,5 M ht

Consultants Jost / Hagenmller / E3 conomie / Cap Avenir

environnement BBC low energy building

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Culture & sport tude en cours Culture & sports In progress 2013

VILLAGENEUF Village-Neuf (68), France

Culture & sport Ralisation Culture & sports Completed 2006

VILLAGENEUF Village-Neuf (68), France

Client Ville de Village-Neuf


Cot 7 M ht

Consultants BET OTE


Salle de sport, salle de gymnastique, salle de lutte, salle de spectaclede 600 placesLe programme prvoyait une salle des ftes de 600 places, une salle omnisports de niveau national avec des gradins pour 250 personnes, une salle de gymnastique de 400m (pour les collges) et une salle de lutte de 150m. Nous avons dcid dorganiser le projet comme une suite de volumes (et non comme une grande masse compacte) place le long de la voie EDF, o elle se trouve en harmonie avec le gabarit des btiments industriels. Lorganisation linaire se fait le long dune rampe qui renferme tous les locaux secondaires nayant pu tre contenus dans les volumes des salles : vestiaires, locaux techniques et salles associatives. Par la circulation intrieure quelle mnage, elle devient le liant entre toutes les fonctions du programme et rend ainsi plus claire la lecture dun programme plutt complexe. Lensemble sportif et culturel de Village Neuf est notre premier grand projet ralis. Avec un chantier qui a dur vingt-quatre mois, ce projet nous a confronts des difices de grande dimension, mi-chemin du projet durbanisme.

Sports hall, hall for gymnastics, wrestling hall, 600-seats auditorium

The project called for the construction of a 600-space village hall, sporting grounds of national dimension with bleachers for 250 people, a 400m gymnasium and a 150m wrestling hall. We decided to divide the project into a series of volumes, positioning them alongside the EDF road, where they would find a harmony in the already existent template of industrial buildings. This linear organization runs alongside a ramp in which all the secondary locations that were not built within the projects specific volumes are housed: locker rooms, technical premises, and related areas. With regards to the flow of internal traffic that it facilitates, the ramp acts as the glue between the separate volumes and their various functions, thus providing clear navigation through rather complex construction needs. The Village Neuf sports and cultural complex is our first large, completed project. With construction lasting twenty-four months, this project challenged us with erecting buildings of large dimension, halfway within an urban setting.

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Culture & sport Ralisation Culture & sports Completed 2006

ARENA Nanterre (92), France

Culture & sport Concours Culture & sports Competition 2010

Client OVALTO


Cot 170 M ht

Consultants Choulet / Forgue / Batiserf


Stade de 32.000 places, bureaux et spaLe stade Arna se signalise par sa performance structurelle et sa trs grande lgret voquant le monde naturel et son intrigante simplicit. Les objectifs architecturaux que nous avons recherchs pour cette opration sont lunit du traitement architectural, la clart de la composition, la transparence et la lgret de lensemble. Dans notre projet, lintention architecturale est intimement lie au choix des matriaux et de leur mise en uvre: le bois massif reconstitu pour les grandes portes et lenveloppe, le mtal pour les assemblages et la trs grande porte, le bton pour le socle et les points o convergent les efforts verticaux. Bien quil prsente laspect dun btiment bois, le stade possde en ralit une structure htrogne, compose galement dacier et de bton. Deux poutres treillis mtalliques franchissent les 100m de longueur du terrain ; elles reprennent la structure transversale et contreventent ldifice, permettant une finesse globale de la structure bois.

32.000 seat stadium, offices, spaThe arena stadium is distinguished by a structural conception of intriguing simplicity in which an extreme lightness evokes the natural world. The architectural objectives we had in mind for this operation included unity in the architectural covering, compositional clarity, transparency and lightness of the whole. In our project the architectural intention is intimately tied to the choice of materials and their implementation: reconstituted solid wood for the large girders and for the covering, metal for the assemblages and for the largest girder, concrete for the base and for the points where the vertical pressures converge. Despite giving off the appearance of a completely wooden building, the stadium in reality possesses a heterogeneous structure underneath, composed equally of steel and concrete. Two metal-beam trusses extend across the 100m length of the plot, traversing and bracing the edifice, and giving an overall finesse to the wooden structure.

ARENA Nanterre (92), France

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BRANLY 11 Paris (75), France

Client Fdration de Russie


Cot 15 M ht

environnement HQE / THPE

Centre culturel, glise orthodoxe et espaces communs sur le Quai BranlyOn peut difficilement parler de limplantation dun lieu de culte dans son site sans parler dorientation. En effet, cest une donne trs importante dans la mesure o les points cardinaux ont toujours t fortement chargs de symboles. De plus tout difice religieux a une raction prsenter par rapport au soleil. Ainsi, nous pouvons affirmer que la plupart des btiments cultuels, quils soient chrtiens ou paens, ont pour rfrence laxe est-ouest. Ce qui ne veut pas forcment dire quils sont orients exactement dans cette direction mais quils y font tout au moins rfrence. lintrieur de cet difice, cest la perfection du cercle et en mme temps, lorientation que larchitecture souligne, cest la concentration de lesprit favorise par lambiance de la chapelle de jour, ce sont les variations de la lumire travers la verrire, cest la beaut des couleurs : le rouge, le bleu, lor pour les matriaux de base; cest fondamentalement surtout, une liaison entre la terre et le ciel.

Cultural center, orthodox church and public space Quai BranlyIt is difficult to speak of the physical establishment of a place of worship on its site without speaking of its orientation. In effect, it is a very important consideration in so far as such a buildings cardinal points are always highly charged with symbols. In all religious buildings there is a relationship with the sun. Thus, we can say that the majority of religious buildings, whether Christian or Pagan, give reference to the east-west axis. This does not necessarily mean that they are exactly oriented along this axis and direction, but that they at least reference it someway in their construction. Inside this building, there is the perfection of the circle and, at the same time, a particular orientation highlighted by the architecture, made up of a concentration of the preferred spirit of the chapel during the day, of the variations of light that pass through the canopy, of the beauty of the colors present. Red, blue, gold make up the materials of the base. These serve essentially as representing a link between the heavens and earth....

BRANLY 11 Paris (75), France

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SERLACHIUS Mantaa (FIN)

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Scenography

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SERLACHIUS Mantaa (FIN)

Extension du museFace au Manoir, objet solitaire et compact, beau geste architectural, abusant de sa position dominante nous nhsitons pas proposer une architecture facilement accessible, proche du terrain, ouverte sur la nature et sensible sa beaut et sa fragilit. Notre premire ide a t dabriter le muse dans une grande structure linaire qui franchit le paysage. Cette structure rappelle les ponts et passerelles, les parcs dattractions, les ouvrages dart, plutt quun btiment traditionnel. Cet espace linaire met en valeur autant luvre que le visiteur en lentrainant dans une exprience unique : dabord la promenade pour lesprit lintrieur du btiment, ensuite la promenade pour le corps, lextrieur. Notre muse est un lieu culturel qui invite les visiteurs dcouvrir des uvres et se dcouvrir, en se promenant travers des espaces fluides, bien dimensionns et agrablement clairs.

Extension of a museumFacing the Manor, that solitary and compact object with its beautiful architectural gesture, its dominant position, we do not hesitate in proposing an easily accessible architecture, close to the ground, opening onto the surrounding nature, sensitive to natures beauty and fragility. Our first idea was to house the museum in a large linear structure that would traverse the landscape. A structure of this sort is reminiscent of bridges and pathways, amusement parks, works of art, rather than of a traditional building. This linear space highlights the surrounding works that together bring about a unique experience in the visitor: in the buildings interior a playground for the mind, in the enveloping outside a playground for the body. Our museum is a cultural space that invites visitors to discover works of art while discovering themselves, along walks through fluid and fluctuating spaces, well-proportioned and agreeably lit.

Client Fdration de Russie


Cot 15 M ht


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