Macro-plot and office building Boulogne, France loci anima December 2015
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Project details: macro-plot A4 east Project : planning of a combined area, macro-plot A4 east Programm : 13 481 sq. m offices and business units (Loci Anima). 10 272 sq. m of housing units (Remy Marciano ; Béal & Blankaert). A student residence of 3 200 sq. m (Hamonic & Masson). A school of 6 600 sq. m (Chartier Dalix). Floor area : 34 243 sq. m. Calendrier : delivery: October, 2015. MOA : Développement Boulogne Seguin, SAEM Val de Seine (aménageur), Vinci Immobilier, Nexity Entreprise. Architecte : Loci Anima Architecture (Françoise Raynaud). Director project: Velmourougane Chandrasegar, Cécile Céleste. Landscape architecture: Exit paysagistes associés. Photographer : Jean-Pierre Porcher.
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In 2010, loci anima was awarded a project to develop a mixed neighbourhood on a macro-site A4Est in Boulogne-Billancourt, and to design an office building on the same plot. Seeking to bring architecture and nature together, in the holistic approach that is part of the DNA of its founder Françoise Raynaud, loci anima imagined the idea of a multi-purpose green urban island to be colonised by men, women and children, as well as animals and plants. An inhabited microcosm, perpetually mutating, following the path of the sun, at the complex rhythm of the living. With audacity, she placed the school buildings (project managed by another team) in the centre of the plot, like a landscape opening up the view and drawing all eyes towards it. The gymnasium is concealed under a large green space that the school backs on to, while the playgrounds are on terraced levels, evoking rice fields planted on a mountainside. In order to enrich the biodiversity of the island, the inside walls of the school resemble a fragment of a rocky cliff – subtle faults are revealed between the stone slabs that make up this wall creating habitats for a diverse variety of birds as well as small mammals. This means that the offices and flats enjoy an unobstructed view of greenery. These buildings themselves are designed as tools of biodiversity – solitary beehives have been erected on the roofs of the buildings in order to encourage pollination, there are large collective gardens dotted among the 8
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terraces council flats. In the spaces outside the university residence, there are perches for birds and the office building has a large covered greenspace on each of its terraces. Created from scratch, the macro-plot has gradually been colonised by a very diverse variety of users that change with the weather and that intermingle with each other. We see local residents, school children, office workers, and also hedgehogs, topinambours, bees, small birds of prey and poppies have all appropriated the space that they share. So the macro-plot has started to look a bit like Noah’s Ark while blending subtly in with its environment. Through this project, loci anima pays homage to mountains, rivers, plant and animal life, and also to the sun. In this regard, the large office building project developed by the Vinci group (designed by loci anima) stands outs though the colour of its walls. They are in subtle, changing tones, ranging from blue to orange-pink that evoke the nuances of the light at dawn and at dusk, that almost imperceptible moment when darkness becomes light and vice versa. Seeking to enrich this “other part”, loci anima chose to give these walls the appearance of containers, freeing up large bays and integrating a system of pods used for maintenance. Providing comfortable, large, naturally lit spaces with a large number of outside greenspaces, the project integrates the idea of well-being in the workplace. There is a glassed in shaft running right up to the seventh floor through which you can see the centre of the green island from the rue Yves Kermen. The shaft contains a service staircase made from wood which is bathed in light during the day. Against all expectations, this has become the nerve centre of the building, a loci anima
common space where employees of the various companies in the block meet each other as they come and go. The entrance to the building has been designed to encourage this co-habitation. Opening onto two independent halls, it provides the different companies with a reception and entertainment space that is their own. Vinci Construction, which has chosen to locate its headquarters here, has its own reception hall, fitted with the necessary attributes for entertaining (high ceiling, customised furniture). It is testing the new types of office space itself. loci anima has in fact designed an atypical workspace, placing the employee at the centre of the project as a complex and sensitive user. Accordingly, it has not put in individual office cubicles or large open spaces, but has come up with hybrid spaces that evolve in accordance with their usage – a space for concentrating, for relaxing, for large or small gatherings, in meetings or more informally. The spaces adapt and change to suit the users. The offices have built-in IT connections which enable employees to integrate virtually with the hardware. Reserving a meeting room, consulting the meeting room schedule, etc. are all new options that these offices provide, making the work spaces less formatted, more intuitive and more sensitive. A living organism in a way.
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Project details : «In Situ» office building
Location: 57/59 rue Yves Kermen, Boulogne Billancourt (92) France Programme: Headquarters offices, day-care centre, company restaurant, terraces on the highest levels Floor area: bureaux : 14 161 sq. m Cost: 32 M€ Delivery: October 2015 Owner : SCI Boulogne Ville A4E A. Co-developer Vinci Immobilier & Nexity Architect : loci anima (Françoise Raynaud) Project director: Jonathan Thornhill Construction manager: Delphine Lottin Assistant : Cécile Céleste Engineering firms: HVAC: SNC Lavalin.. Facades: DVVD. Acoustics: ACV. Kitchen design : CERES. Building controler : VERITAS. SPS: QUALICONSULT. SSI : BATISS. Lanscape architect: EXIT paysagistes associés. Security : Casso et associes. Environmental consultant : Green Affair. Construction companies : Facade claddings : LCM & Alupic. Facades: ATS. Structure : ACE TECH. Earthworks foundations: VIALIS. Interior woodwork : ETMB. Maintenance : CODITEM. Metalwork : Prometal. HVAC : ICE. Electricity : Santerne. Waterproofing : ASTEN. Suspended ceilings : REFLEX. Raised floors :BANGUI. Kitchens : RAGENEAU. Lifts : OTIS. Photographer : Jean-Pierre Porcher
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loci anima Franรงoise Raynaud created loci anima, a firm that balances architecture, urbanism and innovation, in 2002 in Paris. The work she does is singular, spiritual, reflects her convictions and her ethics centred on a holistic vision and the continual desire to bring people and genres together. Her spaces create links between people and nature, the human and the animal, the human and plant life in buildings designed to be living entities. Because each project presents the opportunity to introduce a new concept that will embody her vision and because the sky is the limit, the firm has been awarded projects in New Zealand, in Spain and in Vietnam and is currently developing a new concept for a high-rise building in Manhattan, New York City.
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Françoise Raynaud Partner architect Principal & founder Françoise Raynaud has built and worked around the world - Japan, China, Malaysia, Korea, New Zealand, Spain, the USA... Françoise Raynaud, a freethinking architect, put together an international team when she set up her firm loci anima (the soul of the space) in 2002. Since then, she and her team have constantly fought against received ideas and systems. She isn’t motivated by the idea of constructing a corpus of works, but by the creation of living architecture, buildings that are efficient, practical, intelligent and recyclable.
She then worked for Jean Nouvel, building several sensitive projects in Asia (Japan, Korea and China). There she took on board the precepts of Feng Shui which were in line with her ideas as they are based on harmony in the construction of spaces. She advocates an architecture that is heavily inspired by nature in its ability to adapt, in possible shifts, in transformation, in appropriation by all. Buildings are shells that the “human animal” lives in (Eugène Viollet le Duc).
In all of her projects, we find the desire to bring an end to the town/ nature dichotomy. Her architectures are landscapes for living, for inhabiting, for planting. They are architectures that welcome people, plants and animals in cities. Her love of the elements and of nature have drawn her to other cultures, so-called primitive cultures, which are however, in her view much more respectful and responsible than western societies. It is these ideas that drew her, once she’d graduated, to Australia and seek out Glenn Murcutt, the visionary architect inspired by Aboriginal culture.
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Jonathan Thornhill Partner architect International development Jonathan has led projects in all 5 continents of the world, ranging from high-rise offices and condominiums to museums and contemporary art centres. All of these projects are marked with the stamp of the highest design quality, technical rigour and sustainable pertinence. Before joining loci anima in 2007, he worked for Jean Nouvel and led projects such as the Leuum museum in Seoul, and latterly for Shigeru Ban on the Centre Pomidou-Metz. Jonathan has a deep concern for the sense of sustainability in a project, driven by context, be it the immediate surrounding landscape or the geographic position and prevailing climatic conditions. As a student at Manchester Metropolitan University, Norberg-Shultz greatly influenced his ideas about immediate human context, just as Hawking on the quantum context and of what we’re all ultimately made, which as he points out, creates a relationship between animal, vegetal and mineral. He believes that any building is the singularity of these relationships together with the programme.
individual and collective memories. Materials and objects like people and animals have memories thus creating a meaning for our built environment that can be felt when you touch a building. And it’s at the first single moment of coming into physical contact with a building, through a doorway or at a street corner, that our first impression is the most important. Since joining loci anima, Jonathan has brought an added sensitivity to the detailed design of their projects, carrying though the conceptual ideas of the project from the inception stages into the execution project phases. Often the source of innovative façade design in response to the ever complexification of the technical and programmatic nature of projects, his idea is to simplify rather than complexify and to find the just and most sustainable and sensitive design possible right down to the last nut and bolt.
Jonathan believes that architecture should be able to reveal the same organic and living idea in our contemporary buildings like the collage of experiences in our own loci anima
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2015 latest projects Alpha Multimedia library Angoulême, France
Location: Angoulême (16), France Programme: Media Library, indoor/outdoor garden, amphitheatre, café and restaurant Mission: Complete, including building design and interior design/ furnishings, conception & execution drawings and site supervision Floor area: 5 241 sq. m Cost: 13,8 M€ Delivery: 2015, December Client: Community of Greater Angoulême Agglomeration Architect: loci anima (Françoise Raynaud) Environmental engineers: Alto Photographer: Philippe Le Roy
Médiathèque Alpha 1 rue Coulomb 16000 Angoulême France +33 (0)5 45 94 56 00 lalpha.org 2015 latest projects
Cinema les Fauvettes Paris, France
Location: 58 avenue Gobelins Paris 13e, France Programme: 5 cinema theatres, 646 seats. Floor area: 1 722 sp. m Cost: 6,5 M€ Calendar: Delivery: 2015 november, Construction duration : 20 months Client: Les Cinémas Pathé Gaumont Architect: loci anima (Françoise Raynaud) Project manager: Vincent Laplante Construction assistant: Clémence Marguet Project manager (studies): Xavier Maunoury Decorator: Jacques Grange Project manager: Alain Dejonghe Facade artist: Miguel Chevalier Photographer: Jean-Pierre Porcher
Cinéma Les Fauvettes 58, avenue des Gobelins 75013 Paris France +33 (0)1 45 63 73 04 cinemalesfauvettes.com loci anima
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