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Pavillon Circulaire

PAVILLON CIRCULAIRE

Encore Heureux

Pavillon Circulaire

ARCHITECTS
Encore Heureux

PHOTOS
Cyrus Cornut , Cyrille Weiner 

STATUS
Built

AREA
70 m²

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Paris, France

TYPE
Cultural › Pavilion

Pavillon Circulaire
©Cyrille Weiner

A singular building, the Circular Pavilion has nothing round. The name describes the process, which follows the circular economy principles, according to which ones’ waste become others’ ressources.

Faced with the depletion of natural resources and aims for the «Zero Metropolis Waste» ambition, this pavilion demonstrates the potential of re-use in architecture, which fits in the context of COP 21 (the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference) in Paris. About 60% of the implemented materials here finds a second life.

Pavillon Circulaire
©Cyrus Cornut

Wastes taken from construction sites, erroneous orders or unused stocks : each of the materials implemented has its own story.180 wooden doors, deposited during a housing rehabilitation operation in Paris’ 19th district, form the facade. Inside, the isolation uses mineral wool removed from a supermarket roof.

The wooden framework is made of extras from the construction site of a retirement home while the ground and the partition walls consist of former exhibition’s walls. Outside, the terrace is built with the wood of Paris Beach event.

When it comes to the furnitures, 50 wooden chairs were collected from Parisian bulky waste, fixed and painted, and the hanging lights come from the public lighting storage.

Pavillon Circulaire

At the exception of the framework and impermeability, all the work was done by the technical services of Paris City Hall.

With this experimental process, we wanted to demonstrate that access to new materials deposits rely on new relationships with the ones in charge of deconstructing and dismantling buildings, the ones who salvage and implement materials.

An improved focus on the already existing resources and materials would allow to reduce our consumption of primary resource as well as avoid the production and accumulation of wastes that then need to be dealt with.

Pavillon Circulaire
©Cyrille Weiner
Pavillon Circulaire
©Cyrus Cornut

It an ongoing research toward an architecture characterized by sobriety and pertinence.

While implanted on the parvis de l’Hôtel de Vill, the pavilion will host exhibitions, workshops, lectures and debates.

Pavillon Circulaire
©Cyrus Cornut
Pavillon Circulaire
©Cyrus Cornut

At the beginning of year 2016, the Circular Pavilion will be dismantled and reinstalled permanently in Paris’ 14th district as a sports association’s clubhouse.


Pavillon Circulaire
Pavillon Circulaire


Pavillon Circulaire
Pavillon Circulaire

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