AURELIUM BUILDING
BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT
FRANCE, 2005-2009
WORK PLACE
PR–383
The office building designed for Vinci Immobilier is located in the Trapèze district, opposite Seguin Island, on the site of the former Renault factory and within a block whose master plan was coordinated by Swiss architects Diener & Diener.
PROGRAM
The Aurélium building has eight floors comprising 10,000 m² of unfurnished office space, a 900 m² company restaurant, and 150 parking spaces.
DETAIL
Situation
Cours de l’île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Year
2005-2009
Status
Direct order
Site area
2 128 m²
Built-up area
11 000 m²
Project management
Vinci Immobilier, Boulogne-Billancourt
Project implementation
Dominique Perrault, architect, urbanist
Design offices
COTEBA Ingénierie, COTEBA Environnement, Marion Consulting, Qualiconsult, Veritas
DESCRIPTION
Built on Yves Kermen Street, the project is a corner building with a U-shaped layout enclosing a private garden. The main façade of the building has eight floors. The two side wings are staggered, allowing for the installation of roof terraces. While the overall volume of the building follows the conventional codes of commercial developments, the agency focused on the materiality of the envelope, as evidenced by the prototyping work on the facade elements.
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The ground floor, occupied by common areas, offers great transparency, allowing visitors to see the lobby and the garden at the heart of the block. In the upper part, the facades consist of alternating semi-transparent glass and metal mesh panels, solid anodized aluminum panels, or transparent bronze-tinted glass panels. Their layout produces an apparently random variation in the opacity of the façade. The interplay of lines and stripes intensifies the building’s presence or, conversely, seems to make it disappear, playing on the idea of dematerialization induced by the vibrating effect of the steel mesh weave.
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