Client: Citynove - Groupe Galeries Lafayette
Surface: 9 000 m² (extension)
Cost: 37 000 000 €
Program: Restructuring - extension of the existing department store, creation of new retail spaces and restaurants...
Green design: Excellent breeam certification
The Galeries Lafayette building in Annecy is part of these unexpected and impertinent architectures, in a homogeneous city. Designed in the 1970s, the building is placed on the site completely independently, without any contextual research, shape, alignment, or density. Yet the building remains a symbol, it is appreciated by the Annecy as it is a strong landmark in the city.
The objectives of the project are both to completely restructure the existing surfaces to modernize them, and to create a large extension that will welcome new
shops and restaurants, complementing the surfaces and the offer of Galeries Lafayette.
The project is composed of several circular
volumetrics that slide below and above the existing volumes, like fine and crystalline satellites, which are multiplied in contact with the two existing parking rings. The outer facades of these large circular hapes
are entirely glazed: the pleating of glass echoes the closing concrete pleating of the parking rings.
In the right of the entries, the folding opens and reveals the mail which is at the heart of the project. Once past the first skin, the curves of the satellites penetrate the interior space and turn into a ribbon that
becomes the shop windows of the interior shops.
