ULTEAM Renovation / Arte Charprentier
Textual content description supplied by the architects. ULTEAM is a rehabilitation challenge for a gaggle of workplaces, that features a Haussmannian constructing and a construction from the Nineteen Fifties. The Lodge Particulier (Personal mansion) with its essential courtyard and conventional French backyard, relationship from 1820, is on the coronary heart of the challenge. Near the Champs-Elysees, the rehabilitation brings historical past and up to date structure collectively.
With a up to date side, the facades of the brand new buildings are composed of huge glass panels surrounding and highlighting the renovated present constructions. A vertical mesh unfolds alongside the façade on the road, on the principle courtyard, and across the backyard. Expressing the constructing’s essence, the mesh weaves the hyperlink between the completely different areas and temporalities. The all-around glazing and the significantly open façade rhythm promote pure lighting on all workstations. Above the Lodge Particulier, two ranges had been created, together with the fifth flooring, the Nuage (the cloud), an area within the attic glazed to all heights, bathed in gentle, and surrounded by terraces that overlook the mansion and the backyard; the area between sky and earth is kind of singular.
The work on the inside areas combines a cautious restoration of the historic components, resembling the sumptuous residing rooms of the Lodge Particulier with very up to date areas. The foyer is an instance of this method, combining parts of historical past and the clear implementation of noble supplies resembling marble and brass.
This renovation provides all kinds of areas: a gallery, lobby, multipurpose room, categorized rooms, and workplace trays, all with the fixed need to supply brilliant, beneficiant, and modular areas. Like the remainder of the challenge, the ULTEAM landscaped areas, the principle courtyard, the historic backyard, and the various backyard terraces, provide a chic up to date side completely built-in right into a preserved historic context.
The paved courtyard of honor, the primary out of doors area encountered by the customer, is a up to date reinterpretation of the Lodge Particulier courtyard. With the creation of flowerbeds of crops and a fountain to refresh it, it turns into a haven of peace that gives, on sunny days, different workspaces exterior.
The backyard, a listed inexperienced area of 500 m² going through south, is framed by the «backyard entrance» of the resort particulier and its two new up to date wings. The goal is to recreate a standard French backyard, centered on the historic façade, however the lack of traditionally documented data on the backyard permits a free interpretation of it. It’s not a restoration however moderately a creation the place the classical motifs tackle a contemporary materiality: symmetry, fountains, flowering beds, a central garden, a body of low-cut hedges, and a pergola for previous roses.
Accessible or not, all of the roofs are planted with giant vegetal carpets. The accessible terraces, true locations of life, are unfold on either side of the backyard and provide giant areas to alternate, work open air, or have lunch. Lastly, the terrace of the «Nuage» (Cloud), on the prime of the constructing, provides an distinctive panoramic view of all of Paris close to the Champs Elysees.
