ONIX BUILDING
LILLE
FRANCE, 2006-2009
WORK PLACE
PR–382
Enjoying a strategic location in the Euralille business center, the Onix office building combines high visibility with excellent accessibility.
PROGRAM
Office building delivered in white and parking lot.
DETAIL
Situation
Euralille, Lille, France
Year
2006-2009
Status
International competition, winning project
Site area
3 340 m²
Built-up area
26 900 m²
Project management
CODIC Paris, VINCI Immobilier, Lille
Project implementation
Dominique Perrault, architect, urbanist
Design offices
Terrell International, INEX, Marion Consulting, Cabinet Ripeau, Jean-Paul Lamoureux
DESCRIPTION
The project is a bar, but a moving bar, with variable thickness, which bends, expands, and contracts in order to make the best use of the triangular plot. This modeling of the structure makes it possible to form open angles that house the main entrance, which opens onto the adjoining square, and the parking lot entrance, located in an additional volume on which a landscaped garden is planted.
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Four types of modules, of different widths, are used to cover the façade: fixed opaque, opening opaque, fixed glazed, and sloped glazed. The latter category, which is very common on the upper floors, becomes less frequent as one approaches the ground, leaving only a smooth surface on the ground floor, thus increasing the impression of transparency. This shaping work continues on the roof, where a metal mesh conceals the technical equipment and accentuates the profiling of the volume. The movements of the building, the reliefs created, and the reflections generated by the glass and metal of the façade give the new building a lively and informal character.
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