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Bâtiment pour officiers célibataires
By : enia architectes
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 16th edition
Discipline : Architecture
Categories : Residential Building / Apartment & Condo of 5 to 9 storeys : Gold Certification
Designing the new building for Single Officers is a major responsibility: the residents must find in this place, although located in a secure enclosure, a living and resting environment that allows them to fully carry out their mission of national defense.
Our project thus meets this dual expectation: ensuring optimal security, while offering everyone, as fairly as possible, a comfortable habitat, a bright and warm cocoon.
This ambitious objective has entirely guided the building\\’s layout, which relies on a strong concept: a figure formed by two parallel wings unified by a connecting gallery, corresponding to two different height levels – one wing in R+5 and the other in R+3. The functional units of each level are all consistent.
This layout primarily allows each resident to benefit from generous sunlight: all the rooms are oriented East, South or West, and enjoy the sun at some point in the day. We know how much a North orientation is disadvantageous for this type of accommodation, and it seems essential to us that no resident be disadvantaged: no room is thus oriented to the North.
Furthermore, this organization allows for full enjoyment of the South orientation: the security imperative requires an opaque ground floor on the street; by positioning the connecting gallery set back, we offer south-facing rooms, including on the ground floor, which open onto a common garden. With this setback, all south-facing spaces – including all relaxation areas and their terraces – can open generously without suffering from street nuisances.
This southern garden is also one of the major assets of the layout, by inserting the building into a high-quality green setting: the figure allows the rooms to have two very generous vegetated spaces, one in the heart of the plot, the other on the entrance facade. The latter constitutes a collective space on which the common areas of the ground floor open.
This garden also benefits the city by offering it, despite security constraints, breathing space and a view of the trees and vegetation on the base: our project reconciles security requirements (opaque wall) with true generosity towards public space.
This attention to the urban context also explains our proposed height: thanks to its two different heights, our project fully assumes its role as an \\ »urban seam\\ » between the surrounding built volumes. The height difference also allows the top floors to enjoy an unobstructed view, and all users to easily access the large terrace located on the connecting gallery roof.
This reflection on usage and comfort naturally extends into our approach to interior spaces: natural light also illuminates all the circulations, particularly in the connecting gallery, fully glazed to the North, which offers a remarkable panorama of the heart-of-block garden.
The importance given to natural lighting is fully integrated into our environmental strategy, focused on energy performance: this strategy relies in particular on a highly efficient envelope, a green roof, and the contribution of photovoltaic panels.
Natural lighting and our choice of noble and sustainable materials reinforce the sense of appropriation by users and have a positive impact on maintenance.
The rationality of our design thus responds to clear objectives of performance, but also to the control of deadlines, which we consider to be one of the major challenges of this project: by proposing a rigorous framework and fully prefabricated facade modules in the workshop before being fixed on-site on the structural frame, we guarantee exemplary execution speed and irreproachable quality.
During this short design period, we have thus brought together the truly complementary skills of the members of our consortium to propose a building that fully meets the requirements of comfort, performance, and urban integration in this iconic and remarkable site.
Collaboration
General Contractor : Cardinal Edifice
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