Within the framework of the Meuse and Haute Marne economic support programme, EDF has decided to centralise all its intermediary Engineering Production Management archives in Bure.
The idea underpinning our project was challenged by the use of one single architectural gesture through which we would provide urban integration and optimised comfort for the future occupants.
Over and above functional concerns, the question was not to construct a building but rather to articulate a new urban space combining the public and private, verticality and horizontality, and to respond fully to the expectations and needs of a population.
The building’s location enables it to articulate different urban scales, both near and far. Its verticality can act as a visual axis and marker, whilst finding a just and respectful relationship with its immediate context.
The envelope is studded with a double network of points, creating a kind of kinetic game of constantly changing viewpoints for outside observers, enabling them to visually interact with the new building.
A new, ecological and social living space geared to the 21st century. We directed our research towards a hybrid typology combining the house and the apartment.
The primary intention of the programme was to explore the relationship between the building and its surroundings and between the building users and the landscape. One of the main design concerns was the building’s environmental adaptation and appropriation.
Our architectural intervention concerns access to the buildings, their entrance halls and the transformation of their facades, and involves a sustainable approach to energy economy and environmental quality.
The starting point of the project was to imagine Beirut in all its complexity. We have imagined the city as an ‘un- finished’ superposition of histories, contexts, architectures and situations.
For the Neue Hamburger Terrassen project, we adapted and created a contemporary version of a working class terrace house typology. This was the starting point of our strategy.
On 2 June 2010, the four entirely renovated and restructured greenhouses in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, were reopened to the public after years of work.
The Bonneuil-sur-Marne children’s toy library is a public building as well as a play space for children. The project creates an opposition between monumentality and the need for a warm, friendly environment within the same building.