Arc de Seine

The project involves the renovation of a commercial building comprising three basement levels and twelve upper floors. Reflecting a broader vision of enhancing Paris's modern heritage, the main challenges of this renovation are to renew and enhance the building's architectural identity while integrating it into its urban environment.

The architectural approach is based on three key ideas that reflect the agency's values. The aim is to break up the linear monotony of the façade, give the building a new sense of clarity, and open it up to the city by creating a visual opening that reveals the building's interior walkways. Also, to maximize natural light on all floors by removing the glass roof, restructuring the patio, and redesigning the atrium facades to create a lantern effect in the attic. And to offer a new quality of outdoor spaces by creating recessed levels, planting vegetation on the now accessible rooftops, and creating planters and vegetable gardens.