Clarity and Mineralty

The posed question: linking the expressivity of the building to its future use in the background. Answering it means thinking about the marriage of history and new uses, of luminosity and plaster, of the verticality of the plot, of the roof and its capacity to welcome natural light into its heart. It is an opportunity to demonstrate the value of a rehabilitation with environmental virtues: a dry-sector post-and-beam superstructure with steel deck flooring, fully integrating the concept of mutability. Above all, 62 rue Beaubourg aims both to inspire dreams and affirm its identity while re-embedding itself in the history of the neighborhood. The ground-floor retail shell is preserved and relocated to rue de Montmorency to enhance the rue Beaubourg facade. The parking lot is demolished on the ground floor and first basement level to restore true earth and create an accessible garden.