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Office Building Euralille
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Type
SIZE
300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft
BUDGET
$5M - 10M
Is it possible to
reaffirm the city in an architectural project?
This question, shared by our entire team, was the
departure point for our search for a sensitive but daring response.
The plot’s strategic position, at a major crossroads
in an urban district, directed us towards a “multiform” architecture whose
geometry could provide a specific response to problems linked to the project’s
scale, geography and demands.
We realised that 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 purpose of this architecture is to
construct a new urban space combining the private and public, the vertical and
horizontal. The building’s envelope is conceived as an apparatus for the city’s
constant visual reinvention.
The windows break with the modularity
of office buildings, creating a more domestic image and ensuring the transition
between a residential and a business district. The result is a kinetic
architecture constantly changing with different viewpoints.
To increase this visual richness, the
design of each façade was generated by its orientation, use and thermal
considerations. This creates successions and superimpositions of glazed areas,
windows on the city, and different, fixed or mobile systems of wooden cladding,
enabling constant change in function of the building’s daily life.
Materiality
of the facades: networks and wood
The design of the facades and the
building’s interior spaces is structured by a 1.35 metre grid composed
of a U-shaped metallic element running the entire height of the building, to
which the envelope’s various components are fixed.
This vertical grid is interrupted
three times by horizontal wooden bands, running around the building and ending
at the acroter.
Secondary horizontal and vertical
grids regulate the design of the fixed or mobile wooden elements.
We chose red wood for the cladding of
the facades, using it in different configurations depending on their purpose,
and alternating this with larges windows looking out over the city. Wood is used
as a fixed cladding in the opaque or semi-glazed parts of the façade, but also,
depending on the orientation, in the form of pivoting openwork shutters,
enabling precise control of light penetration. But is also used as a fixed
sunscreen.
The project’s conception provides
residents and office users with a public space based on horizontality,
circulation and social interaction on a human scale. Unable to build right to the plot’s limits, we opted for a form of
portico, a walkway providing shelter from the
weather, a lively exterior space in which passers-by and shop customers can
intermingle.
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