Even the mobile operators need fixed positions

Even the mobile operators need fixed positions. Bouygues Telecom takes its brands in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine) in a new building built any express for him by his relatives, Bouygues real estate and Bouygues building Ile-de-France, Valode & Pistre architecture agency project.

Located at the edge of forest and at the edge of the area of Vélizy-Meudon, the technopôle camped in a strategic position RN 188 and the A86 motorway. It brings together green and the broadband network and computer of the operator teams yesterday spread over three sites in the southern suburbs, or some 3,000 employees.

Familiar of the tertiary and industrial issues from the l ' Oréal of Aulnay-sous-Bois factory (1988) comes to enter the collection permanent city of Architecture and heritage in Paris, the Agency Valode & Pistre shows once again its ability to integrate a complex program and insert it smooth in its environment. Be a block, building adopts a composition worked to provide maximum user a view of the forest. In plan, it comes in the form of two "A" connected by an internal street running along gardens. In volume, it unfolds over five levels within the overall ceiling of the established District 21 metres, except for the bow clearly visible from the highway, built on eight levels, and as a signal.

The branches of "A" giving to the South on the main access road are storied terraced and trimmed a waisted white steel structure that plays the dual role of sunshades and identity sign. "We wanted to achieve a"colline"building and almost natural, explains Denis Valode, extensively glazed north-side forest, and which flared in the South for home." All the facades are studied according to orientation, with including full lighters capoté concrete of aluminum to the East and West, to ensure a thermally efficient ratio of 60 of full for 40 of glass surfaces. Alternating overdoors level by level contribute to this same logic. "As a whole seeks to give an idea of modernity, of movement and dynamism in phase with activity", argues the architect that has appreciated to interact with the user, even if everything here is thinking in terms of flexibility according to the classical frame of offices for possible other uses. For the time being, inner street which aligns bars "A" weaves the link between specific premises secured, places of life of the company (rooms, restaurants, cafeteria...) and the plateaus of work developed by majority of the "open space". Declined in gateways glass between the different bodies of rack, it gives read the depth of implantation and household unexpected transparency on the forest in the middle. Thus punctuated, and articulated figure of double "A" develops the 57,000 m2du program with elegance. In total, taking into account particularly the three levels of buried parking (1,800 seats), 130,000 m2de floors will be sunk at a cost of the order of EUR 140 million, off-field. "An important work has been done by three economists in the presence, those of the contracting authority, company and ours", said the architect Denis Valode.

Attentive to its environment, this operation without camouflage and very readable becomes the new showcase for telephony company, building on the "green" character of Meudon, pending delivery of the Mozart tower under construction at the entrance of Issy les Moulineaux to house its headquarters.