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- Architects: PERIPHERIQUES Marin+Trottin Architectes
- Location: Avenue Pierre de Coubertin, 53000 Laval, France
- Lead Architects: Emmanuelle Marin, David Trottin
- Area: 2199.0 m2
- Project Year: 2013
- Photographs: Luc Boegly
- Project Managers ( Construction ): Antoine Roy /MIRO/
- Project Managers (Study) : Claire Gaudin, Juliette Bonnamy
- Assitants : Karine Bergevin, Maud Armagnac, Vania Léandro
- Technical Engineer : Egis Bâtiment Centre Ouest
- Acoustics : Peutz & Associés
- Client : SEM Laval Mayenne Aménagements
- Budget : 3,45 M € not including VAT (value 2013)
- Program : A three-storey office building with mixed companies, generous common spaces: rooftop terrace and an inner courtyard, a building with low energy consumption (BBC)
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From the architect. This building for innovative companies is situated in a new area of Laval city. Though it’s located on a small size plot, this sparkling project wants to become an important landmark for its neighborhood.
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The project wanted to keep the notion of an hotel, or a caravanserai welcoming merchant. The workspaces are a set of rooms and suites, which are all connected together by a pathway surrounding a large patio. This « enfilade » system, this succession of rooms, makes possible a certain modularity by giving the choice to link the spaces together or not.
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Ground floor plan
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Because of the project’s program, our main goal was to give users a place with the best conditions of light, circulation and potential meeting area. During the competition, floors were partitioned with 30-50 sqm working room, as it was requested by the rules. But the structural grid of 1.35m and the light partition system used, allow any other type of interior partitioning.
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Axonometric
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The specific design of each facade depends on sun exposure in a way that it maximizes the contributions and protections. The interplay of sunshade points out the entrance and gives the façade a subtle kinetic appearance. The different skies that will illuminate the building will give a changing and atmospheric perception of it.
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