Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops

Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart
Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart

Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops

Atelier Ronan Prineau

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING COMPANY
SERBA

ELECTRICAL & PLUMBING
Tual

ECONOMIST ENGINEERING
Denis Rousseau

MANUFACTURERS
Geberit, Bega, Legrand, Arcelor Mittal, BAUBUCHE, Eczacibasi, HUET, Macalloy, Reynaers, Seigneurie

AREA
940 m²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
  Challans, France  

CATEGORY
 Offices, Retail 

Text description provided by architect.

The Domino inserts itself in a distended suburban area, at the entrance of Challans in Vendée. The urban composition of the project is defined by the context.

Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart
Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart

The project is oriented in a way to reveal the city’s entrance, the documents, and the great landscape. It is a project of a recapture of daily architecture.

The volume outcomes from a work of urban couture where flexions and orientations reply to urban interstices. The building’s first floor is fully glazed, with a generous height.

Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart
Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart

The second and third floors are two volumes with a shifting offset, that allows the urban façade to stretch and show respect to the neighboring buildings.

These horizontal volumes mark Carnot Street and suggest urban densification.

Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart
Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart

On the contrary, the façades become thicker as they rise up to the sky with narrower glazings, giving a vertical reading of the building.

Horizontality and verticality allow this building to reveal the “genius loci”.

Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart
Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart

The urban context leads the building to a material deletion for the benefit of an urban construction where founding, volumes, and details allow durability.

Construction precision, the timelessness of drawing, and attention to detail serve the building’s longevity.

Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart
Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart

Urban, structural and aesthetic rationalities enable one to contemplate its future under the auspices of changes or restoration where overall lifespan is part of the environmental response.


Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart
Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart
Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart
Le DomiNO Head Office, Co-working & Shops
© François Dantart


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