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La Licorne Office Building

La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly

La Licorne Office Building 

PERIPHERIQUES Marin+Trottin Architectes

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Emmanuelle Marin, David Trottin

PHOTOGRAPHS
Luc Boegly

AREA
2199 m²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Laval, France

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

Text description provided by architect.

This building for innovative companies is situated in a new area of Laval city. Though it’s located on a small size plot, this sparkling project wants to become an important landmark for its neighborhood.

La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly

The project wanted to keep the notion of an hotel, or a caravanserai welcoming merchant. The workspaces are a set of rooms and suites, which are all connected together by a pathway surrounding a large patio.

This « enfilade » system, this succession of rooms, makes possible a certain modularity by giving the choice to link the spaces together or not.

Because of the project’s program, our main goal was to give users a place with the best conditions of light, circulation and potential meeting area.

La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly

During the competition, floors were partitioned with 30-50 sqm working room, as it was requested by the rules. But the structural grid of 1.35m and the light partition system used, allow any other type of interior partitioning.

The specific design of each facade depends on sun exposure in a way that it maximizes the contributions and protections.

La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly

The interplay of sunshade points out the entrance and gives the façade a subtle kinetic appearance.

The different skies that will illuminate the building will give a changing and atmospheric perception of it.

La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly


La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly


La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly
La Licorne Office Building
© Luc Boegly


La Licorne Office Building
West Facade
La Licorne Office Building
South Facade


La Licorne Office Building
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La Licorne Office Building
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La Licorne Office Building
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