The Jean d’Ormesson library is located in the northern part of the town of Vendargues, in a particular urban context. It is 10 minutes from the village’s center (town hall) and 20-25 minutes from the southern extremities of the agglomeration. The neighborhood is mainly residential and has two schools (Ribambelle and Garrigues schools), a medical center, a stadium and a nursery. The library is ideally located and easily accessible.
The Library is located on the upper part of the parcel, which is on the flattest part of the site. The topology was taken into account in the design and implementation of the building. The library forecourt is an extension to highlight the building. This public space marks a gradual entry into the library and allows the inhabitants to benefit from a vegetated living area punctuated with urban furniture such as benches.
Yemanja has achieved the office design for Mediawan, a French media conglomerate, located in Paris, France.
When Yemanja discovered Mediawan’s new buildings, we were stunned by the beauty and the nature of the place. Quickly, a complicity appeared with Mediawan’s teams and the dialogue was very fluid. Passionate by office’s landscaping, we quickly understood the challenge and the strategic issues of such a project. We had to find and tell a story to illustrate our ambition all along the 8 floors and its 10,000 m². Mediawan’s offices are a place made by creatives for creatives. Our work will give birth to the group’s ambitions. To make 46 avenue de Breteuil an incubator dedicated to production and innovation of audiovisual and digital contents, the office of the future sector mastodon.
The large monolithic roof of raw concrete is supported by 8 peripheral columns and 2 central cores reinterpreting the Mies aesthetics and structural ingenuity, in a mineral, baroque and rural variation. The external structural dimensioning creates an almost archaic shelter, radical and tectonic; only tempered by the warm materiality of the larch wood wall encircling the habitable space as if it had slipped below this Alsatian dolmen. This elementary composition responds in a sober way to the large horizontality of the agricultural Ried plain. The house protects itself from its dominant wind and the bad weather to better open itself towards the sun, the light, the orchard and the castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg watching in the distance.
The site is located in an urban plot in Laval, France. The location of the house in the middle of the plot frees up the views to the north and south and preserves the remarkable trees all around.
The house is built on a rectangular base inside which is extruded a rectangular space, giving to the house a sort of large exterior room open to the sky, protected from winds and vis-à-vis. The living room widely opens to the south and north, while the more intimate programs (bedrooms, bathroom, garage, laundry room) develop on the eastern and western limits. The swimming pool, the central terrace, the living room, the covered terraces to the south form a large continuous common space accessible from each part of the house. This plan seeks to create a multiple and hybrid place where the boundaries between interior and exterior are blurred.
MVRDV has completed construction of Ilot Queyries, a courtyard apartment building providing 282 homes – including 128 for social housing – parking, commercial space, and a rooftop restaurant in an intimate urban setting with plenty of light, air, and a large collective green space. Located to the east of the River Garonne in Bordeaux, across from the city’s UNESCO World Heritage historic centre, the building is part of a new neighbourhood of four buildings masterplanned by MVRDV alongside Joubert Architecture.
Located on the southeast edge of the Université de Nanterre, opposite the exit from the RER suburban train station, the library stands on an a typical triangular plot of land of rather modest dimension when compared with the size of the campus and the neighboring landscape of office and apartment towers.
On the east façade, the main part of the program runs alongside the university, coming to an end on the south side with the great window of the exhibition areas. The grand entrance porch stands on the south side, overlooking the mall, on the smaller side of the building. It serves as the base for the prism that dominates all the building’s volumes. The programs are dense and superimposed on this challenging plot: a reading room on the ground floor, exhibitions and training rooms on the second floor, and offices on the two upper floors.
Invited by «Le Voyage à Nantes», YokYok was led to propose an artistic intervention in order to reactivate an old barn, at the heart of the park of Forget Island, for the city of Saint-Sebastien-sur- Loire. (44, France)
Situated along the Loire river, on a floodplain, the unique building of the island, which old barn’s function explains the singular morphology is set with an overlooking terrace offering views 360 around the park.
Article source: Bien Urbain – atelier d’architecture
Situated in the very centre of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the exhibition rooms devoted primarily to fashion are in the Rohan Wing of the Louvre running along the Jardin des Tuileries and the Rue de Rivoli.
This wing was renovated in the 90’s, with an additional floor being added and with all of its windows blocked, such that its architectural structure was not immediately visible.
The spatial language of forte_forte, stemming from the dialogue between robert vattilana and giada forte, is a subtle counterpoint of elements, a multisensory balance of components: materials, volumes, identity of the place, meant as local character and genius loci, come together in a narration that is always unique. each new opening adds possibilities and variations to a distinctly eclectic repertoire, expanding it in the sign of an iridescent continuity.
The cannes boutique, located at 27 rue du commandant andré, a few steps from la croisette, housed in a corner building of linear simplicity, is immersed in the sunny holiday atmosphere of the côte d’azur, absorbing its bright and sparkling light. three windows open onto the outside, traversed like a sign by a shelter, creating transparency and osmosis between inside and outside, furniture and environment, activating a game of gazes and a dialogue of volumes.
Formerly the City of Fashion and Design, the couture and fashion professions are taught there in an innovative style within collaborative, flexible and convivial spaces. Present at all floors of the building, they are considered the matrix of the project. Wood in all its forms brings warmth like for Parisian fashion houses and creates the identity of the International Campus. On the ground floor, the interior street created enables the school to open on the city.
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