Our proposal meets the challenge of using a single architectural gesture to achieve:

- full use of the site’s natural resources to create an exceptional work environment,

- incorporation into the site’s composition logic without altering its layout

- as much comfort for users as possible, by favouring encounters both inside and outside the building

The new offices will be organised using the classic layout of two volumes lying perpendicular to one another, resulting in the creation of an outdoor space to the south and an elevation lying parallel to the car access to the new site.

The entrance and circulation core will be located on the junction of these two wings, acting as a natural extension to what we have called the “planted axis”.

Thanks to the triangular roof covering the space to the south, the project provides users with a new form of external space: a covered garden (patio).

The act of extending the park and having it cross through the building results in a subtle architecture whose intention is to break down tangible limits and make the need for a solid volume redundant through a poetry of blurred outlines and evanescence.

The project’s language makes use of two vocabularies:

The east and west facing elevations will be structured by wood and glass modules (permitting maximum interior flexibility) and a system of vertical wooden solar protection panels which, much like a colonnade,

will surround the building.

The entrance to the building provides the only exception to the regular layout of the elevations, the only visible accident. Imagined as a doorway linking the planted axis to the patio, the reception area places emphasis

on transparency and visual extension.

Client : INVS / Cost : €6,3M excl. VAT / Surface : 3 445 m² / Schedule: 2008 / Team: Saunier & Associés (All trades Engineering), Cap Terre (Landscaper)