Binet is a new generation of businesses incubator, which incorporates a specific quality of life, expressed by the workspace’s generosity and the facades openings. Its architecture reminds of the daylight factories. Terraces, workspaces, qualitative landscaping, views, multiple orientations … in short, an architecture that transforms urban and programmatic constraints into real assets. The facades of the building open on all sides with large regular bays. The entrance is through the lobby overlooking the garden, on the ground floor.
The project is one of the priority sites of the Urban Renewal Project, on which the City of Paris has decided to strengthen its action.
The competition team was led by Mario Russo, with Amilcar da Rocha Ferreira; Alba Bui with Clément Dupuy, Gregorio Pettoni and Guillaume Piveteau completed the studies; Stefano Lunardi and Adrien Fournier followed the site work.
Adoma’s challenge was the construction of an apartment house with 71 units for young workers, standing atop a former parking garage beside the Paris beltway. A challenge whose main purpose was the creation of small but pleasant and quality units in a difficult urban setting. Comprised of a “signal” building which emerges from a “blade” building, the project’s location bordering the Paris beltway takes advantage of its particular relation between architecture and infrastructure.
Delicately inserted into the so-called “Citroën” block,” Le Nant’ile reflects a return to the basic organizational principles of the district with the intensity one expects from a densely built-up city blended with its diverse purposes: living, dwelling and working. Three main goals underpin this structure: first, to create a ribbon volume that fits into the linear layout of existing buildings; second, to ensure visual and pedestrian porosity, weaving all the unbuilt spaces into a legible and fluid continuity; and finally, to build highly diverse spatial configurations making it possible for its occupants to lead a wide variety of lifestyles.
The Reflets de Loire project is located on block 6 of the ZAC du Pré Gauchet (joint development zone) in the center of Nantes. The mixed-use program is comprised of a base of two office locations on the ground floor atop which 90 apartments have been built. The meticulous treatment of the façades has resulted in a simple and expressive architectural style achieving three main criteria for success: first, meeting the quality expectations sought by the developer; second, taking into consideration the existing neighboring buildings as a reference for sizing volumes; third, ensuring a high quality of life in the apartments and the related spaces created.
Article source: Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architects ZT GmbH
The College in Lamballe (Brittany, France), planned for 820 students, is mainly constructed in timber. It consists of two separate buildings: a long rectilinear parallelepiped rests on a gently curved base, to echo the site’s topography and fit in with the landscape. Fully glazed, the ground floor brings a sense of lightness to the building. It contains the entrance hall, the covered playground, the spaces for education, a multi-purpose room, and the canteen. On the facades facing southeast and northwest, vertical and horizontal wooden sunshades control the amount of light entering the two floors of classrooms. They increase the thickness of the façade and their shape adds variety to the linear building. Inside, a three-story atrium gives natural light to the circulation area and the classrooms, creating a contrast with the compact nature of the building.
The ambitious Désiré Colombe project by the architecture firm Leibar & Seigneurin completes a major project undertaken by the city of Nantes, jointly sponsored by Nantes Métropole Aménagement and ADI. This development has brought back to life an emblematic legacy of the built center of Nantes and an abandoned landscape, including the particularly noteworthy former Bourse and the Salons Mauduit, on a surface area of approximately one hectare (2.47 acres). It brings together public and private uses with dwellings, meeting spaces, a nursery and a public garden.
The project that RATP has entrusted to us consists of the realization of 2 housing buildings imbricated with a bus center.
In a specific and referenced work based on emblematic Parisian operations (Eugène Beaudoin and Marcel Lods: Atlas passage, Henri Sauvage: Vavin street), the 1st building of our operation implanted rue Père Corentin presents a stepped facade combined with terraces, designed to receive a generous vegetation and solve the wide gap existing between the buildings that surround it: a R+2 Mansart-type pavilion and a R+12 building resulting from the modernity. This graduation work opens this narrow street to the sky and desaturates its noisy ambiance.
Located within the boundaries of the existing school, the project is divided following the natural topography of the site : In the lower part, the recreational center directly connected to the public space benefits from an underexploited courtyard. On the upper level the new classrooms are oriented towards the current school courtyard. The complex takes advantage of an East-West exposure and quietly fits into its surroundings.
The materiality chosen for the recreational center is in continuity with the existing school in concrete. A mineral and monolithic shape emerges from the existing topography. The interior spaces surprise by their brightness and transparency brought by the patios and the warm atmosphere of the wood cladding. The upper part, which houses three classrooms is built in a mixed concrete and wood structure.
MAD reveals its first residential project to be constructed in Europe. Located in Clichy-Batignolles, a newly developed neighborhood in Paris, UNIC is next to Martin Luther King Park and the currently-under construction courthouse designed by Renzo Piano. MAD won the project through an international design competition in collaboration with local French architects Accueil – Biecher Architectes.
“We worked closely with the local government, city planners and local architects in a series of workshops to ensure UNIC is a creative and iconic residential project united with the community,” revealed MAD’s founder & principal partner Ma Yansong.
Location: Clichy-Batignolles, neighborhood in Paris, France
Directors: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano
Design Team: Zhao Wei, Flora Lee, Wu Kaicong, Daniel Gillen, Jiang Bin, Andrea D’ Antrassi, Tristan Brasseur, Juan Valeros, Gustavo Alfred van Staveren, Xin Dogterom, Juan Pablo, Cesar d Pena Del Rey, Natalia Giacomino
The construction works for the offices of France’s URSSAF located in Lieusaint, part of the Paris metropolitan area, have recently finished. This L35 project has been promoted by Pitch Promotion. The offices are part of the ICAM Paris-Sénart University Campus inaugurated back in 2015. The newly built 4.400 m2 office building has two stories above ground level. The design has focused on achieving an open-space layout with flexibility in mind.
The façade takes advantage of the broad landscape views by using permeable sunscreens. The architecture design has the same principles as the rest of the buildings preserving the character of the whole.
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