JDSA will coordinate an ensemble of new buildings on the Blériot-Féval site as well as design and execute a residential tower in Rennes to generate a mix-use and inclusive neighborhood within the Eurorennes development.
The development is located next to and comprises of the new station inaugurated in July 2019. The city’s new express train connections have cut travel times to its neighbours and the capital by nearly half, enthusing many to develop business with or relocate to Brittany’s epicentre.
Dating back from the 1930’s, this beautiful parisian building near the Parc Monceau features large canopies and brick details, contouring charming artists workshops.
This challenging apartment deserved a new project, to reclaim its many assets and imagine a functional living space : in fact, the floor surface was rather small compared to the generous volume.
The new design focuses on light and geometry, complementing beautiful original features with sharp, contemporary lines.
Beauregard (beautiful outlook) takes its name from the vantage point on which it is located and which offers distant views between the valleys of the Ille and Vilaine rivers. To fully appreciate this, one need only climb to the top of the residential building located at the Southern tip of the triangle of the new Cours des Arts designed by the architect from Rennes, a/LTA. At such heights conducive to travel, the great landscape can be taken in from the back of this urban cockpit.
To build this diverse ensemble of housing units which combines a social aspect and home buying possibilities, the project management team NEOTOA bravely rose to the challenge of creating an “intergenerational housing complex”. In 2013, the architects Maxime Le Trionnaire and Gwénaël Le Chapelain came to carry out this programme with a new kind of community living in mind.
An understanding of lines an understanding of space
Confronting An Imposing Station
The future station of the Grand Paris Express (GPE) is located along the South wall of the RER B infrastructure, on the intermodal hub La Plaine – Stade de France. Its construction questions the relationship between the new station and the pre-existing station, the latter illustrating an architecture deeply marked by a hyperstucturalist reading of the transport object.
Instead of competing with this reading, the project for the new GPE station seeks to construct an extruding shape of glass and concrete with the most neutral reading possible. Thus, the new building is visible and discreet at the same time, drawing its strength from an abstract geometry and a sleek outer skin.
It is not a structural machine but an object that serves the town, with multiple uses for the ground floor, the lower ground floor and the usable roof space.
The Clichy-Montfermeil station and its protrusion are located on the Main Square of the Urban Renewal Plan being carried out in the urban community since 2004.
The idea was to work on the symbolism of an urban meeting place, a space where cultural diversity could be expressed and exchanges between cultures could take place. The work on the public space and the interior of the station seeks to bring the specificity of the neighbourhood and the imaginary of the Grand Paris metropolis together.
The inspiration for the colourful petals with organic geometric shapes is drawn from the Bois de Bondy park and the market that is held twice a week on the square with its colourful fabrics on display.
The protrusion of the station is covered by a roof which is more than just a simple cover for the station as it becomes an urban pergola. It is an urban reference point and the symbolic link between the market and the transport infrastructure.
A few weeks ago, the Paris office of OPUS 5 delivered the new Élancourt Music School in Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France.
The new Élancourt Music School has taken up residence in the former ecumenical center of the Sept Mares neighborhood, one of the focal points founding the new town of Saint-Quentin en Yvelines.
The building was originally a house of worship, a simple, without ornament and inward-looking construction owing to the peace and quiet required by its function. Philippe Deslandes built it between 1974 and 1977, with the desire that it embody the qualities of simplicity, modularity and anonymity.
The firm Béal & Blanckaert architectes urbanistes recently delivered new offices in Lille’s burgeoning district of Lomme-EuraTechnologies.
This project is located around the edges of the water garden in the ZAC (joint development zone) Rives de la Haute Deûle. It extends from the refurbished Le Blan-Lafont factory and the Hegel quay, which runs along the Haute Deûle Canal. The quality of the site is the fact of associating the monumentality of the framing of the Le Blan-Lafont factory with the poetic landscape of the water garden.
The “Black Diamond” building is located in the new district of the Haute Deûle in Lille and is emblamatic for this site due to its mixed-use programs.
he Haute Deûle-Euratechnologie project is one of the main urban developments of the city of Lille, bringing together IT companies, housing projects, public facilities, and many public spaces over approximately fifty hectares, combining new designs with preexisting post-industrial buildings that have been recently renovated and transformed into housing and offices.
Wood & Straw, an innovative and responsible constructive choice
Straw insulation is a natural material: it is a material.
Healthy, durable (experiments show straw houses dating back nearly 100 years) and powerful (we get resistances of the order of 9 W / m².K – compare to 5 W / m².k traditionally for walls properly isolated).
By opting for the construction of wood & straw, biosourced construction is favored, which limits the use of unsustainable resources.
The constructive advantage of wood and straw construction compared to the traditional wooden structure and MOB wood frame walls is the possibility of complete prefabrication of the wall. The low weight of the wooden structure and straw allows the production of large areas of factory walls. The assembly line does not require a very powerful crane and the panels can be easily handled on site with light lifting equipment.
Inspired by its location in the green suburban west of Paris, the house is conceptually based on natural tree systems.
The house was planned, similar to the concentric rings of a tree, around a central vertical circulation core that climbs over five floors from basement to terrace. From this core, the major programmatic spaces of the house become the consequent ring, followed by the outer layers; that of the facade with its facetted outer skin or bark.
Image Courtesy @ Jakob+MacFarlane – Roland Halbe photographer
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