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France, Paris
Healthcare
Completed
2008
In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine neighbourhood of Paris, which has to some extent kept its original character of fairly narrow sites, rational dimensions, modest street-front constructions, workshops at the back of courtyards, the trilogy of this programme (laboratories, offices, hotel residence) presented an opportunity to organise the imposing Quinze-Vingts hospital complex built in the 1970s and the buildings inherited from a heterogenous past.
The office building thereby chooses the discretion of the workshop outline, the hotel residence that of a standard apartment building, while the laboratories adopt an emblematic image evoking the research activities conducted therein. An image provided by a curtain wall formed of panels of white “printed” glass, whose visual and tactile perception changes with the reliefs found in them and the light they reflect. This monumental decorative-glass window (which draws its inspiration from the creative world of colourless decorative-glass such as that from the workshop of master glazier Louis Barillet) covers the entire volume of the building, dictated by a strict respect of the alignments, heights, party walls and dimensions imposed by regulations.
Laboratories, pet store and business incubator, tertiary building, 26-room service residence
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and Icade
Public Private Partnership (PPP)
Rabot-Dutilleul
Brunet Saunier & Associés
Icade Arcoba (construction economist), Van Santen & Associés (facade technical consultant), Icade Eurogem (maintainer), Icade Eurostudiomes (residence manager), Péna & Peña (landscape expert), Artefactory, Philippe Harden (renderers), Alpha Volumes (model maker)
Stéphane Cachat and Christian Chopin (competition project managers), Stéphane Cachat assisted by Cyril Pressacco, (studies and construction project managers) and Frédéric Alligorides, Abdelhafid Bairi, Jacques Lévy-Bencheton, Franck Jaoui, Jérôme Levifve, Hoang Phuong Pham, Xiaojing Lu, Ana Markovic, Monika Mittermeyer, Laurent Noël, Maria-So De Noronha, Michel Roux-Dorlut, Nicolas Senly, Isabelle Vasseur
11 400 sq. m
24 M € w/o tax (2008 value)
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre