Unity and Mutability

An exceptional opportunity at an exceptional address to rethink a building so that it finds its rightful place in this neighborhood in the very heart of Paris. It will be a matter of combining the building’s expressiveness with its future use in the background, by conceiving the marriage of history and new uses, of luminosity and plaster, of the plot’s verticality, of the roof and its capacity to welcome natural light into its core. It is also an opportunity to demonstrate the value of a rehabilitation with environmental virtues: a dry-sector post-and-beam superstructure with steel decking, and a design-build approach fully integrating the notion of mutability. Above all, 277 rue Saint-Honoré aims both to inspire dreams and assert its identity while re-engaging with the neighborhood’s history.