Book 2023 - Elise Niogret

« Read the signs of the territory and through this reading, be able to discover and interpret its history which is not only its past but also its present and its future expectations. While it is true that every event leaves signs in space, that everything is part of the territory, we can unravel this writing and understand the meaning of the place for which the project is yet to be made.”

Giancarlo de Carlo

In association with Studio CASA TEREZE

APARTMENT JEAN PROUVE

Renovation | 75005 Paris

Design, site management, supervision work

Built by architect Jean Le Couteur, in partnership with engineer Jean Prouvé and ceramist Jacques Lenoble, this apartment building is emblematic of 1950s Parisian architecture.

In order to offer all apartments an unobstructed view of Place Marcellin-Berthelot and Rue des Ecoles, Jean Le Couteur opted for a rather subtle curved facade : each apartment is marked by a corbelling allowing to multiple views across of the exterior. J. Prouvé designed the metal facade composed of solid panels with portholes and joint covers. These panels are among the last Parisian copies manufactured by Maxéville factory.

We were keen to carry out refurbishment works whilst respecting original things as they stand. Our intervention consisted in restoring the formal and structural originality of the volumes. The partition between the living room and the kitchen was knocked down to offer an open and luminous living space. We also took advantage of this renovation to restore the porthole panels located in the kitchen.

Client | Private Surface | 80m²

Entrepreneurs | Odéon, Ringot & Villarecci, Tactils, Gilles Lebovici, Gilbon & Coroller

VUE DES PANNEAUX J.PROUVE RESTAURES - Panneaux en aluminium anodisé ondulé

In association with Studio CASA TEREZE

APARTMENT VICTOR HUGO

Renovation| 75016 Paris

Design, site management, supervision work

The apartment is located on the 4th floor of a luxury building dating from the early 20th century. The clients wanted a more contemporary living space while preserving its typology and classical structure.

Our intervention included the following :

- Rationalize and optimise the floor plan

- Create four suites with ensuite bathroom, a bar that opens onto the reception rooms, a modular office that opens onto the living room

- Preserve proportions and highlight existing volumes (open and structured volumes, visual continuity across rooms)

- Simplify lines, moulding and cornice design

- Build in air conditioning, underfloor heating and multi-room audio SONOS

- Build in equipments with a minimalist approach

- Maximize storage with custom-made woodwork (bedrooms, kitchen, office)

- Use of finest materials to offer generous and welcoming reception spaces

Client | Private Surface | 270 m²

Engineers & Entrepeneurs | Ertem, Climatelec, Odéon, Ringot & Villarecci, Pascal Michalon

VIEW FROM THE GALLERY

VIEW FROM THE MASTER BATHROOM

AXA MATIGNON Renovation | Paris

APS / APD / PRO

Software : Revit (BIM)

Unification and opening of the Headquarters onto the garden. Simplification of flows, harmonization of the ground floor and basement levels, garden enhancement.

21 Matignon : heavy restructuring, thermal reinforcement, replacement of existing woodwork, change of the entrance level to facilitate access.

25 Matignon : the envelope and the roof remain unchanged. The former honor courtyard regains a classical symmetrical layout, highlighting the hotel de La Vaupalière.

6 Rabelais : replacement of the double-skins by a new envelope. On the ground floor, the slab is lowered to contemporary garden level. On the top level, part of the roof is removed to ease the rooftop access.

Basement : opening in the slabs to create patios. Waterproofing refurbishement.

TEAM MOA| LOR MATIGNON représentée par SEFRI-CIME

MOEX | Artelia

BET| Khephren, Pollen, V-SA, Avel acoustique, Franck Boutté consultants, Gexpertise, Socotec

VIEW FROM BALCONIES (6 Rabelais) © PCA - STREAM

LE BERLIER

Wooden tower, 77 housings units | Paris

APS / APD / DCE

Software : Revit (BIM)

B1B2, is located in the Paris Rive Gauche ZAC, near the Paris ring road. It’s a residential tower composed of two volumes of 28m and 50m high. The facade module grid of the highest volume uses verticality, setting up a dialogue with the towers of the district. The smallest volume displays a facade grid structure in order to ensure the link with the scale and the traditional Parisian typo-morphology. The close proximity to the Parisian ring road creates a highly urban atmosphere. Therefore, each apartment contains an outdoor space to preserve the privacy of the home from the city.

The materiality is also at the core of the concept. The concrete base for commercial and cultural base is seen through different aspects : smoothed concrete for the structure, exposed aggregate concrete for the outer facade layer. Above the base, the structure is mostly made of wood (glulam posts and beams, structural CLT floors, CLT panel) as well as the prefabricated curtain (charred wooden cleaning, impregnated wooden pilaster).

TEAM

Client | Emerige

Engineers | Edeis, C&E, AcoustB

Landscaper | Moz paysage

Contractor for the work | Bouygues Construction

VIEW FROM THE SQUARE BRUNESEAU

VIEW OF CONCRETE BASE & WOOD FACADE

© ArtefactoryLab

SMOOTHED CONCRETE IMPREGNATED WOOD EXPOSED AGGREGATE CONCRETE CHARRED WOOD

VIEW FROM A TYPICAL CORRIDOR

T6B

160 housing units | Paris Competition

Software : Autocad

T6B is located above the Austerlitz Station Railway Lines, limiting the number of structural support to two : two steel trusses are placed in the entire height of the base of the building to ensure the crossing. The three volume of housing, including CLT floors & panels, are based on this structure.

The project emphasizes on the importance of greater consistency between the functionality of the interior spaces and the architectural order from the façade. The dimensions of the domestic sphere are a starting point for the definition of the facade modules. The columns measure 70cm diameter and define a thickness use in the housing (kitchen modules, storage spaces, etc.). In order to strengthen the reading of the three distinct volumes, the central volume proposes a larger grid to identify the structural rhythms of the CLT panels, located every 3.60 meters from each other. The distribution between full and void from the facade and the implementation of pre-drilled wall guarantees easy scalability and flexibility of dwellings.

TEAM

Client | Bouygues Immobilier

Engineers | Bollinger & Grohmann, Franck Boutté

Landscaper | Base

DIAGRAM OF THE FACADE ORDER

LA PERLE

Administrative building | Paris

APS / APD / DCE

Software : Autocad

The project consists of turning a typical Parisian mansion house into an administrative building located right in the heart of the Marais district. The aim of this intervention is to integrate a new office department on the one hand and on the other, to restructure the entire existing premises in order to bring them into line with the fire regulations and the accessibility standards. This rehabilitation provided an opportunity for improving the energy and environmental performance of the building. This operation involves installing an elevator, reinforcing the existing structure, partitioning the office spaces, restoration of the facades.

Situated in a preserved area, the building must respect regulations concerning heritage protection. The project proposes the required transformations to offer better value at the while fully respecting the structure and the original architectural features: conservation and development of outstanding items (courtyard, metal passageway, etc.), interventions based on the original composition of the building and those which contribute to the harmony of the existing façades.

TEAM

Client | Ville de Paris

Engineers | Groupe Nox

Professional thesis | HMONP

The construction work, whether construction of a new building or renovation work, implies continuity within a given location, a building, a street, a district, a city, a landscape. It’s always a way of looking at already existing systems. No place is vacant or not defined. Our living space is a cultural area with historic, social, physical and symbolic relationships. These marks are perceivable today or revealed, in all cases, they are to be identified.

« Read the signs of the territory and through this reading, be able to discover and interpret its history which is not only its past but also its present and its future expectations. While it is true that every event leaves signs in space, that everything is part of the territory, we can unravel this writing and understand the meaning of the place for which the project is yet to be made.»

Giancarlo de Carlo, Architecture et liberté

The pre-existences will be used to enhance the architectural project. Their understanding will be facilitated by a valid diagnosis. It’s an efficient tool for understanding and interpreting various preexisting states. It is then used to define issues and challenges of the project, to guide future intervention and to fine-tune the program.

Thus, whichever the object from which the project resulted (new construction or rehabilitation) or the intervention scale (architectural, urban, landscape), the matter of the diagnosis is crucial.

The diagnosis is often deemed useless and expensive by the client and therefore, it is not considered sufficiently in studies. The deadlines are short while efforts needed to make diagnosis are significant. The compensation does not always consider the complexity and the scope of the service requested. As a consequence, the diagnosis is often botched and reduced to a purely descriptive report.

In addition, in response to the new legislative requirements for comfort, temperature control, fire protection, the architectural design is increasingly based on technical and economic feasibility. So, the diagnosis result is often amounts to engineering services (respect to surfaces, budget, delivery times/deadlines, labels, etc.).

Through a study of two concrete examples of rehabilitation operation in progress within OFFICINA office, this professional thesis aims at showing that the diagnosis also goes further and has a wider scope than a technical report integrating at once architectural, urban, historical data, etc. Through an fine-tuned and comprehensive analysis of existing system, the diagnosis allows the construction of arguments and project choices, hierarchical and opened. Diagnosis allows not only to identify critically the most appropriate transformation, but also to prioritize interventions in order to optimize the available budget and the work schedule.

However, in new construction this delivery does not exist, as studies generally begin with preliminary design. In renovation projects, diagnosis studies are not integrated in the basic mission.

Diagnostic, a preliminary stage to the benefit of architectural design

TEACHER : P. de Jean

ARCHITECTURAL ORDER OF THE FACADES

STRUCTURAL PRINCIPE

PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF BUILDING DEFECTS PARTIAL REBUILDING OF DAMAGED STRUCTURE

PRIZE W 2016 PONDORLY

Wilmotte Foundation

Le ventre du grand Paris

Elise NIOGRET - Simon JOUIN

The proposal aims to ensure the connection between Rungis and its surroundings. In an increasingly fragmented environment, we are taking advantage of the existing infrastructure to flank the opening up of the international market to the public over the coming years. A new public expanse is created ensuring a pedestrian connection between the technical market zone and the hotel district of Orly airport. From the MIN side, the project connects with two planted promenades. On the other side, a public square structures loosened and disoriented urbanism, designed for cars.

The project has been thought to meet the market environment with a festive universe. However, it evokes the collective imagination of the «Halles de Paris» with its workers and nightlife. The gastronomic gallery follows the bridge crossing. A volume, positioned above the gallery, is used night club. It consists of 3 levels over 1500 square meters, each with panoramic views of the surrounding area.

The bridge is rehabilitated with respect to the architectural and spatial design of the existing building. The main structure is preserved and reinforced to sustain the new building. Any further additions that disturb the clarity of the original proposal are deleted. The core and shell are replaced in order to ensure an acoustic and thermal insulation and to open the volumes more widely to the exterior.

LONG SECTION

2nd FLOOR PLAN : THE NIGHT CLUB

ROOFTOP : A TERRACE OPEN TO THE SKY

ROBERT RYMAN

Collective Housing in the city of Dieppe

TEACHERS : G.Desgrandchamps | N.André S.Guével | A.Penin |

The diploma led a reflection on territory and heritage issues by exploiting the potential offered by pre-existing conditions, built or not, classical or common.

The intervention proposes to examine ways of encouraging high density individual housing to limit urban sprawl.

The project is located at the edge of the dock in the Paris basin and integrated in the course of development work on the ZAC of Dieppe. The chosen parcel is 11.000 square meters of wasteland where there are historic suburban housing.

The proposal departs from the stereotypical view of the ZAC that advocates an impersonal and anticontextual approach of the city. The intervention adopted an approach more sensitive that prizes the exceptional situation of the site in connection with its heritage, the geography, the larger landscape, the horizon. The project, with its scale, above all seeks to respect the urban qualities and the volumetric balance that had existed on the site.

The project introduces a system of transversal allays to provide a visual and physical connection between the rear (Street of entrepôt) and the front of the site (the dock in the Paris basin), as well as 3 auxiliary axis to cross the parcel (North-South). On this crossed structure 50 housing units are displayed.

RUE DE L’ENTREPOT

QUAIS DU BASSIN DE PARIS

PUBLIC SQUARES ALLEYS & WALLS

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM & THRESHOLDS

GARDENS & BUILT VOLUMES

ELEVATION FROM THE STREET DE L’ENTREPOT

TYPOLOGY 1 | 2rd FLOOR PLAN

TYPOLOGY 1 | 2nd FLOOR PLAN

TYPOLOGY 2 | ROOF PLAN

TYPOLOGY 2 | 2nd FLOOR PLAN

TYPOLOGY 2 |