Palazzo Bercy
Accommodation | Palazzo Bercy |
Palazzo Bercy - Paris 12ème
Project management | RIVP |
Surface | 11 000 m2 |
Cost | 17 100 000 € EXCL. TAX |
Project management | Lead Architect: Caractére spécial |
BET Structure: DVVD | |
BET TCE / HQE : Sechaud & Bossuyt | |
Building economics: F. Bougon | |
Landscape: Christine Dalnoky | |
Photographic Credits | 3D : FOZR |
Date | 2007 |
Mission | Competition |
HQE Project
Competition for the restructuring of a housing complex into a student residence (200 housing units) and a social residence (100 housing units) rue de Bercy
When you go home you go back to your world and that world is the whole world, it's a universe.
So each studio is a universe, particular and remarkable. That's the story of this building, which looks like a big drum full of universes that tell stories from elsewhere, from far away, of differences, of journeys, of dreams. It is a mysterious crate, like each of its inhabitants, each of the worlds it shelters.
The central patio is the heart of the mystery, where one's imagination can soar through the sky, the clouds and the étoiles : it is an immaterial garden that reflects the light from the sky and diffracts it onto the façades. It is a kaleidoscope of glass, metal, mirror and water that tells the story of the stars and the sun inside. It's a changing, living, luminous and spectacular landscape, a precious and surprising place that you discover inside the box, like a treasure in a trunk: it's also a unique place, an object of pride, because it's important to be proud of your home.