The tower shows as a catalyser of the city, it restores the concentration of history, culture and spaces within a heterogeneous context.
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 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 new town hall building at Saint-Jacques de la Lande is an ideal opportunity to combine an urban strategy and an architectural gesture.
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 aim was to design a flexible and compact building, a place based on the pleasure to belong to an elaborated visual world where the quality of sights and lights becomes a work fulfilment.