The Ilot Mareyeurs is part of the MIN district, which is rapidly expanding, and it is located close to “Jean Belcier”, an area in full development.

The Saint-Jean Belcier area is a composite territory with an industrial past that currently reconcile its distinct urban forms with the city of Bordeaux, introducing new architectural dialogues.

Thus, the programmatic mix of the office building and the activities on the ground floor exploits this inherent formal intelligence in its adaptation of scale, treatment, position, and relationship to the street and the neighborhood buildings, by adopting both an industrial and an urban language. This reflects vertically in the articulation of a semi-industrial basement and the offices placed on the upper levels.

The project is located at the northwestern edge of the lot, occupying almost the entire area of the block. The building is developed in line with public streets to reinforce the existing urban qualities of the site.

As a result, the volume is simple and divided into three bands with semi-cylindrical roofs that flirt with the winter garden imagery while interacting with the industrial productivity of the neighborhood.

The design serves as a marker and identification of the building through a strong, contemporary architectural motif consistent with the history of the district.

It also allows a medium road gauge to be maintained by offering generous volumes and blurring of scales.

The aim is to provide optimal working conditions and to fit into this vast and composite environment, reversing the logic of the courtyard building – a generic form inherited from the norms and standards of office construction.

Thus, a simple volume is introduced at the limits of the plot, a "comb" figure resulting from the investigation of the street, the courtyard, and the greenery, where an interplay of solids and voids is established. It generates interstitial green spaces, treated as winter gardens, six gardens of approximately 1600 m2 in total, on which the office floors open.

Through an envelope that serves as a collector for the entire structure, the gardens, themed according to their orientation on the lot, articulate the entire project and establish a system of relationships between the building and its environment, the building and its base.

Client: ICADE / Budget: €32M excl. tax / Surface area: 4 985 m² / Schedule: 2019-2025 / Team: LAN Architecture (Mandatary), BATISERF (Structure), INEX (Fluids), BMF (Economy), MICHEL DESVIGNE (Landscape), T/E/S/S (Facades), LAMOUREUX (Acoustics), CASSO (Fire Safety and Accessibility), BUREAU VERITAS (Technical Control), FRANCK BOUTTE CONSULTANTS (Environment)