A garden-building

In the rather dense and mineral railway-station district of the city of Massy, this project is a bioclimatic garden-building, a cut-up geography generating terraces and planted surfaces. Tailored as a relief, the structure creates a folding movement around the central garden.

A revamped classic 18-meters long office-block forms the volume. The strip’s inflexions and different heights are subject to the urban templates and the orientation requirements. The 10- to 18-meters large inner garden is generous and planted in a very natural spirit. The whole forms a privileged working space where the relationship with light, sun and green prevails. The pathways give access to wooden terraces on the garden-roofs, offering a relationship with the outside which contributes to the quality of everyday life.

The black facades are cut-up by seemingly randomly set large windows but designed on a 1.35 m. pace. The glass plane is set back, the doorways are clad with a lacquered metal frame which hides the joineries so that only the glass is visible even when the windows are open.