Siège Social d’Aquitanis
Complete project supervision commission
Finalist for the ArchDaily Building of the Year Prize, 2014
Winner of the “Tertiary” prize at AGORA 2014
Project owner
AQUITANIS
Architects
Platform Architecture, lead architects and
Reichen et Robert & Associés
Co-contractor(s)
Supervising contractor: MATH Ingénierie / Platform Architectures
Structural design office: Khephren
Fluids, thermal and environmental design office: INEX
Economist: AEI
Scheduling, Construction Management and Coordination: Cibrobert
Area
4,918 m² net floor area
Project value
€7.5 M tax excluded
Environmental certification (HQE):
THPE EnR
Photographers
©Luc Boegly
©J. Ricolleau
Construction of the new head office of the Office Public de l’Habitat de la Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux (Aquitanis) in the ZAC (mixed development zone) des Berges du Lac.
Creating the head office of a subsidised-housing operator constitutes a very special symbolic act. That is because, for the public and for the operator's various partners, the building needs embody and reveal Aquitanis's “values”. It must project a “soft” symbolism on several levels:
- the urban level, due to the place it occupies in the city and its fabric and the institutional image it reflects.
- the architectural level, around the notions of generosity, openness, modernity and poetry, but also rationality, durability and economic performance.
- the environmental level, based on a bioclimatic approach and respect for its environment, in particular through the implementation of a natural night-time cooling system.
