Article source: Baumschlager Eberle Architekten and SCAPE
Green Office® ENJOY is the first office block in Paris to produce more energy than it consumes. The surplus comes courtesy of the 1,700m² of solar panels installed on the roof of the building, itself constructed largely from wood. This ability to generate 23% more energy than is needed to run it forms an integral part of the concept behind the sustainable design developed by Baumschlager Eberle Architekten and SCAPE, whose definition of sustainability encompasses a range of values: technical, architectural and, above all, human.
The decision to choose a renewable building material in the form of wood was made on sustainability grounds, but also for pragmatic reason. Straddling a railway line in Paris’s Clichy-Batignolles quarter, the site demanded the lightest-weight construction method possible. This is where the wood came into its own, being easy to use in the building process. Above Green Office® ENJOY’s baseplate rises a classic beam-and-post structure of glued spruce and pine laminate, its floors made of cross-laminated pine. As for the façades, they are constructed using a solid timber frame with sterling board (OSB) and mineral wool, and finished with aluminium cassettes.
Article source: MARC MIMRAM ARCHITECTURE & ASSOCIES
Flowing like a river between the Avenue de France and Halle Freyssinet are the railway lines, now wider, now merging together. Here, to the right of the Panorama building, the possible area without intermediate supports is 58 meters (190 feet).
Everywhere else, the buildings being erected over the railway network have been constructed on a thick platform, a table of concrete on which any collection of buildings conforming to the rules of urban development can be erected at random without planning ahead of time.
Being named one of the most relevant novelties last year, this year Houtique is back at Maison et Objet Paris to present new designs by Italian designer Elena Salmistraro, besides new designs from their co-partners Masquespacio and new versions of the praised Wink lighting collection.
L’Atelier des Lumières – The lights factory – is the first digital art center in Paris. This multimedia exhibit takes place in an industrial space offering a mesmerizing immersive experience into art and music.
Thousands of digital photos are brought to life in unison with the rhythm of masterpieces of music inciting the audience to soar into a marvelous art journey. This patented process developed by the company “Culturespaces” is already facing a tremendous success at “Carrières des Lumières” in the medieval town of southern France called Baux-de-Provence.
In this project, we have developed an original approach to architecture, at the crossroads of artisanal practice and the exercise of classical mastery.
Located on Rue du Roi de Sicile in the heart of Paris’ 4th arrondissement, the 9Confidentiel hotel is the latest 5-star hot spot, designed from start to finish by designer Philippe Starck.
The building’s Art Deco facade with its bow windows houses 29 rooms across six floors, three of which are suites with a panoramic view over the roofs of Paris, as well as a breakfast room, a cocktail bar and a tea room.
Shifting between neo-classical and ultra-modern, this intimate space is inspired by the subtle and sophisticated poetry of the 1920s. A location that is passed on in whispers, an invitation to a certain confidentiality…
This project is the interior design of a boutique for a new Japanese cosmetic brand. An old 18th century building in the center of Paris was chosen as first shop. This brand sells around 100 types of cosmetic essence products and each customer can create an original product by mixing products. The name of the brand “en” literally means “Beauty” in Japanese.
Concepts
The Japanese phoneme “en” means not only “Beauty” but also “Circle” and “Connection”. The design concept is inspired by these three meanings of “en“.
We accompanied Orangina through a process of change by designing new offices that perfectly match with their brand image. For this project, we choose to collaborate with the brand’s general manager in order to turn workspaces into collaborative areas to promote modern working methods.
The Olivier Métra school in Paris occupies a plot between two forms of opposite housing: brick of the thirties and small private houses with their garden. It is overlooked by large recent residences on the hill of Belleville. In this narrow and long ground, the multipurpose school is posed in the complexity of the urban ground declining a unique material, the pre-patinated zinc with standing seam. He unifies the equipment and takes the particular tones of Paris. While maintaining a neutrality in the heterogeneous faubourien fabric, the school releases a structured space for the playgrounds and directs the classes in the morning sun. The building breaches the villas. Freed from the party, he turns at an angle in the curve of the street Olivier Métra. The southern light slips into the gap, to the playgrounds. The mezzanine device raises the ground floor and playgrounds installed in the slope. It stages the entrance and illuminates the service rooms below.
At the origin of this operation there were two independent buildings, the building overlooking the street of Volontaires and the building on the campus of Pasteur Institute, in Paris.
The street building, built in the late 90s was dedicated to housing, it consisted of small students rooms developing on nine levels. It was optimized for this kind of program and offered only few openings and a very constrained floor height of 2.40m. The trays were cured and the facades completely sawn to make way for a curtain wall and a corrugated steel cladding covering the entire project. The low height led to a work on the expression of ducts and other technical elements innervating the building.
The buildings now house offices and research laboratories dedicated to bioinformatics on more than 3200 square meters.
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