The double-height lobby leads from Rue Fructidor to the pedestrian street towards metro line 14. Its large prism-like glass roof reveals the building's architecture against the sky.
A combination of subtle colours and wood features guides the visitors through to the reception desk. There, the wood rises along the partition and turns over once it reaches the ceiling to the second entrance where it descends again to mark a second waiting area.
The comfortable and generous furniture matches the library which sets the tone for informal meetings or nomadic work.
OPTIK benefits from an innovative structure, a central concrete core with long-span metal beams. A framework emblematic of the beginning of the century that allows for floors without interior columns, which can be fitted out without constraint, to answer at the best the company's needs and new uses.
18 701 m2 of office space for up to 1,800 people
Ratio of 1 person/10m2
and have 2 000 m2 floors plates without internal columns
Sun exposure, 1.4m grid and opening window to facilitate layout and optimize user comfort
80 % of office space on sun exposure
2.7m free height
Possibility to fit out 20% of the floor as meeting rooms to create up to 170 meeting room seats per floor
Terraces at levels 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8, totalizing over 1,500 m2
20% of meeting room
GL+8
1 711 m2
GL+7
2 141 m2
GL+6
2 249 m2
GL+5
2 465 m2
GL+3-4
2 520 m2
GL+2
2 489 m2
GL+1
2 765 m2
GL+0
1 553 m2
Rooftop
Office 1
Office 2
Office 3
Business center
Cafeteria
Reception
Sanitary facilities
Vertical circulation
Bike room
Terraces
Contrasted
Circulations
The contrast of colors and materials defines the spaces and guides the users up to the higher floors. This interplay of materials carries on in the hallways, floors and even the sanitary facilities, where its rhythm echoes the facades’ architectural design.
Architect's
Vision
An exceptional visibility, facing Paris and the ring road.
This is a feature that we sought to magnify in order to preserve the building’s aura with a mineral façade on eight levels and a marked outline every two floors to enhance the building’s scale and integration into its current and future environment. We also increased its large urban window which expands in the vertical continuity of a triangular glass roof, underlying the main entrance sequence. At the same time, we decided to turn this contrasting black-and-white façade upside down at the corners of the building, to create a volume that looks out into the city.
Constraint-free office floors.
The elevated building respects its original structure, a constructive principle with a 3.70 m floor pitch, a concrete core and metal beams that stretch to the facades. This singular structure creates floors that are largely column-free, an incomparable advantage in terms of layout and agile organization. Spaces are bathed in light thanks to full height glazed surfaces, without stills.
Reception under a zenithal light.
A walk-through hall connects the building’s two entrances and serves the cluster of services. The access Rue Fructidor benefits from the glass roof which acts as a prism, highlighting the exterior architecture against the sky. The lobby’s circulations are a direct result of the new pedestrian flows coming from the Rue Fructidor, but especially from the métro line 14, located north of the site. Inside, we translated the idea of dynamic flows into movement within an actual social hub, which plays with shapes and colors.
Dominant view.
Finally, the building’s highlight is its 1,000 m2 roof, over half of which is vegetated. The terrace on the eighth floor is there for all to enjoy the ring road’s landscape and never-ending spectacle, with Paris in the background.
Building does not necessarily mean destroying. OPTIK is a perfect example of our rehabilitation strategy, which aims to give new life to an existing building, making it even more qualitative than a new building. In concrete terms, our approach consists in letting ourselves be guided by a location, embrace it and identify its strong points to strengthen them and revise what needs to be revised. This know-how allows us to follow up the necessary evolution while targeting our interventions to limit demolitions; to draw from the material the building’s durability. This approach is in line with sustainable development and carbon footprint reduction.
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