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Facing the Seine river in Paris, BRIDGE is composed of two buildings marking the perimeter of a pedestrian public space: a new office building and a refurbished 19th century, historic Eiffel-style covered market hall. The headquarters is characterized by its 15m long, top-floor glass cantilever.
On the inside, BRIDGE opens on a 30m high and 80m long landscaped atrium. The visitor is immersed in an "indoor city" composed of suspended volumes. Above the atrium, the office spaces extend into plant-covered balconies horizontally and into two levels of planted rooftops vertically. The entire building is bathed in natural light thanks to three wide glass roofs. BRIDGE's architecture is said to be "tectonic": each floor is an inhabited plate with its interior areas and its exterior extensions.
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BRIDGE was designed to be one with nature and its environment. With its immense atrium, terraces and gardens, it affirms the concept dear to the architects that "the boundaries between outside and inside no longer exist". Concept that the vegetation of the building brings to life. And more specifically biophilia, beyond placing plants at all levels of the building, its designers wanted to express the love of life, a notion popularized by the biologist Edward Osborne Wilson in 1984.
As for the symbolic glass cantilever, seemingly sliding off the top-floor of the building, it foreshadows the bridge of Issy crossing the Seine river, a signal for exchange and viewpoint to the surrounding area.
Sustainable and eco-responsible, this outstandingly conscious project is certified Exceptional HQE (High Environmental Quality) for offices; along with a BREEAM Excellent rating and Effinergie+ label. With the concept of digitalization at the heart of the project, BRIDGE is also looking at a "WiredScore" certification in the near future.
The use of materials selected for their raw aesthetics (wood, metal, stone, glass, concrete...) integrates simplicity into the workspace and contributes to the creation of a peaceful and relaxed atmosphere for the 5 000 collaborators and visitors. The building's interior is a landscaped atrium where each floor and balcony is planted. More than 75 different species of flora can be found and natural light is omnipresent throughout the building.
The second building, the eiffel-style historic market hall built at the end of the Nineteenth century was dismantled and relocated while retaining 80% of its surface area. Testimony to the industrial heritage of Issy-Les-Moulineaux, the metal skeleton was made up of a finely crafted assembly, having undergone numerous restructurings. The whole challenge of the rehabilitation therefore consisted of removing all the filling elements on the metal structure. The original tiled roof was also replaced by a glass and screen-printed over-roof in order to make the framework of the hall visible. Occupying a strategic position at the entrance to the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux, this new hall, intended for services, constitutes an "urban signal" clear and readable, in relation to its context and following its orientations.
BRIDGE is one of the projects by ALTAREA which I am most proud of. It catches the eye with the audacity and beauty of its architecture. Its unique silhouette which projects towards the future, the transparency of the spaces abolishes the boundaries between the interior and the exterior, the harmonious shapes constantly recall nature, the 30m high atrium is a true suspended "inner-city garden". The Eiffel Hall, which has been preserved and completely restructured, bears witness to this history.
VIGUIER is an internationally recognized architecture, urban planning and landscape design practice based in Paris, Casablanca, and Brussels. Founded in 1992, the practice is led by Jean-Paul Viguier with four partners. Comprised of about 80 professionals of a dozen different nationalities, the practice has put its clients’ needs at the heart of every project to deliver innovative and elegant design solutions.
A commitment to sustainable architecture and urban planning:
Designing the city with sustainability at the heart of the design process is one of the practice’s first responsibilities. The approach to environmental design rests on a number of fundamental principles: awareness of the context and the building’s biodiversity. Sustainability, the building’s reversability, and space modualrity. Materials’ lifecycle and possibilities for creating a circular economy; and an exemplary approach to energy from conception to maintenance, with the use of efficient low carbon materials.
