Prélude, Armagnac district, Bordeaux
This building stands at the front tip of the new Ilot d'Armagnac situated in a district under development near the Saint-Jean station in Bordeaux. The general shape of the building is derived from the complex lay of the plot. The addition of a supplementary fold puts the plot division to use to establish a formal system. The partial set-backs reduce the cast shadow of the building on the garden side and regulate the transition with the neighboring apartment buildings. The vertical breaks, several stories high, enliven the facade and echo the fragmentation in blocks of the neighboring constructions.
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Program
7 floors office building and 56 spaces car park on lower ground floor
Client
Icade Promotion
Project team
Chaix & Morel et Associés, Paris
Philippe Chaix, Jean-Paul Morel, Rémy Van Nieuwenhove
with Pierre Cornil, Kaï Jensen, Itamar Krauss, Aurélie De Sèze
and Olivier Jacques
Alto, mechanical engineering
Khephren, structure
BETEM, execution project management
CapTerre, client assistant for sustainable developement
Socotec, quality surveyor
DEKRA, safety and health protection
Key figures
Area : 9 500 m² SHON
Construction costs excl. VAT : 12 M €
Commission 2009 - under construction, completion May 2013
Environmental specifications
Environmental quality approach aiming for “BBC - Effinergie” label
Photography credits
Vincent Fillon
Alain Gilbert
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