View - the butterfly at the Boulevard

Paris, France

Facade at the Boulevard

Photo © Sergio Grazia

office area - highly flexibel

Photo © Sergio Grazia

ground floor plan - like a butterfly

Visualization © Baumschlager Eberle Architekten

Metall-Fassade

Photo © Sergio Grazia

Corner rue Paul Meurice

Photo © archphoto.in, (c) Baumschlager Eberle Architekten

site plan

Visualization © Baumschlager Eberle Architekten

Photo © Luc Boegly

Office Buildings

Architects: Baumschlager Eberle Architekten

Location: Rue Paul Meurice, 75020 Paris, France
Year: 2018

A shimmering band within the city, gently swinging out. With a floor plan that is reminiscent of a butterfly, symmetrical and rising in height. Used as an office. The imagery of the building clearly shows what a new building close to the acoustic epicentre of Boulevard Péripherique is required to achieve, and it also masters this challenge brilliantly. The office building with its two "wings" and the shared connecting auditorium looks like a solitaire, but its shape oscillates freely in the context of a very harsh environment.

Gentrification is therefore required, and good architecture can deliver that. Furthermore, the office space is use-neutral and arranged around green inner courtyards in the centre, invoking a sense of nature away from the noise of the Paris outskirts.