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URSSAF Offices
URSSAF Offices
One of the
great challenges of the URSSAF building was the need to support the dialogue
with the surroundings so to enhance the force lines of the existing urban tissue
with the implementation of this building.
Designed
with the principle of successive plant withdrawals, the URSSAF building is part
of the environment which it defines and structures.
The
building will bring along a specific urban form due to its privileged relation
with the surrounding urban tissue; this tissue is, as usual in Saint Etienne,
both mineral and vegetal.
The
building’s shape is sculpted by a succession of withdrawals covered with
vegetation. Each level is clearly expressed in the facade by the horizontal
highlighting of the terraces; more specifically thanks to the vegetation behind
the railings.
The
perception of this inhabited topography appears to (or shows/ shines) lighten
(relaxed) because of the volume’s horizontal rhythm; it is even more softened
by the presence of the façade’s vegetation which echoes the outcrop of nature
overall present in Saint Etienne.
Due to
these planted terraces a visual prolongation of each floor is made; they
provide a high level of visual and spatial comfort and all work spaces benefit
from a double orientation.
All the
offices and work spaces hence have an exterior green space which offers the
users privileged views over the hills in the North and over the open mineral
garden in the South.
To avoid
thermal bridges, these terraces are covered with wooden decking and behind the
railings they are dotted with flower beds; which are also accessible for
maintenance.
The strong
presence of vegetation in this commercial building, designed for both public
and private use, on the site Chateaucreux, which presents a particular
topographic context and privileged visual relations with the landscape, allows
to reconnect with the geography of the place and to define a specific
architectural identity that mobilizes the potential of the town.
In the existence of these exterior spaces of each
office lies the potential of stimulating the emergence of new uses, consistent
with the will for improving the quality of work and live.
great challenges of the URSSAF building was the need to support the dialogue
with the surroundings so to enhance the force lines of the existing urban tissue
with the implementation of this building.
Designed
with the principle of successive plant withdrawals, the URSSAF building is part
of the environment which it defines and structures.
The
building will bring along a specific urban form due to its privileged relation
with the surrounding urban tissue; this tissue is, as usual in Saint Etienne,
both mineral and vegetal.
The
building’s shape is sculpted by a succession of withdrawals covered with
vegetation. Each level is clearly expressed in the facade by the horizontal
highlighting of the terraces; more specifically thanks to the vegetation behind
the railings.
The
perception of this inhabited topography appears to (or shows/ shines) lighten
(relaxed) because of the volume’s horizontal rhythm; it is even more softened
by the presence of the façade’s vegetation which echoes the outcrop of nature
overall present in Saint Etienne.
Due to
these planted terraces a visual prolongation of each floor is made; they
provide a high level of visual and spatial comfort and all work spaces benefit
from a double orientation.
All the
offices and work spaces hence have an exterior green space which offers the
users privileged views over the hills in the North and over the open mineral
garden in the South.
To avoid
thermal bridges, these terraces are covered with wooden decking and behind the
railings they are dotted with flower beds; which are also accessible for
maintenance.
The strong
presence of vegetation in this commercial building, designed for both public
and private use, on the site Chateaucreux, which presents a particular
topographic context and privileged visual relations with the landscape, allows
to reconnect with the geography of the place and to define a specific
architectural identity that mobilizes the potential of the town.
In the existence of these exterior spaces of each
office lies the potential of stimulating the emergence of new uses, consistent
with the will for improving the quality of work and live.
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