Proxinnov
PROXINNOV
Block Architectes
ARCHITECTS
Block Architectes
CLIENT
Région des pays de la loire
CO-CONTRACTORS
cetrac, area etudes, area canopée, itac
energy consumption at the level of the bbc label (low energy building)
hqe (high environmental quality) building
PROJECT COST
2,510,000 euros excluding vat
PHOTOGRAPHER
Nicolas pineau
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
FLOOR AREA
1400 m²
AREA
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
DESIGN
2010
YEAR
2013
LOCATION
La Roche-sur-Yon, France
TYPE
Industrial › Research Facility
This combined technological and networking center is specifically established around robotics and hosts a showroom for diffusion & exhibition, a conference center for networking, and a workshop and offices for experimentation and development.
The project site holds a strong agricultural identity typical of the rural local landscape.
Thereby the plot has been cut into multiple transversal stripes, building a sequence alternating between hardscape and softscape.
Three of these striations delimitated by wooden palisades host the building and the parking lot.
Thus the high-tech program shows an abstract image hybrid of a shed and a barn, integrated into the agricultural landscape, in a kind of a stealth architecture.
The construction follows the principles of a soft bioclimatic architecture: A compact built shape for low energy loss; maximization of light intake through sheds orientated north for low electricity consumption; maximization of passive intake during winter via solar energy through a large shed orientated to the south; and the high inertia walls and floors that enable a thermal phase shift for heating during winter and cooling during summer.
The building and its architecture have been thought of as a kind of abstract factory to be adaptable in use and in time.
The workshop enables multiple configurations and uses by a matrix fluids distribution (water, high and low voltage wiring, compressed air) and movable partitions.
The construction and its future extensions have been designed as a whole.
The lusters and reception desk in the hall have been designed specifically and integrate an acoustic treatment for the room.
