Pollution filter building - Legrand Group
Paris / Construction site in progress
Construction of an office building for the Paris office of the Legrand Group
DUBUISSON Architecture (lead architect), Sempervirens (landscape architects), SETEC
Green roof, phytoremediation of air, green car park, forecourt.
Legrand, a global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, wishes to bring together its various teams from the Ile-de-France region in a single building in Bagnolet, in order to promote exchange and coordination between the various players on an international scale and to improve the conditions for welcoming and receiving international clients and partners.
The Legrand Campus Paris project consists of a rehabilitation of the existing building and, on the other hand, a new extension, intended to house the regional sales management of Ile-de-France, as well as a large format showroom of equipment from all the Group's brands: INNOVAL.
We opted to organize the buildings around an interior garden, recreating a kind of cloister, and we took this approach further by creating a circular walkway around this central patio, beginning on the site's green roofs and then sloping gently down to the heart of the cloister. To give the building a new identity, and also to control the amount of light and modulate views into the buildings, we clad the facades with a metal mesh. On the roofs, a solar farm provides for part of the site's energy needs.
Within this setting, the interior layouts, from the showroom to the agora, used for the Group's conventions, are in line with the Group's technological excellence and industrial agility, and allow for all the new ways of working, whether nomadic or project-based.