ANTI-SMOG
LOCATION : Canal de l'Ourcq, Paris 19ème
Anti-Smog is a parasite project set up on the post-industrial urban structure of the Petite Ceinture and the canal de l’Ourcq in the 19th Parisian district. It is a public equipment dedicated to promote the last innovations on the theme of sustainable development in urban area in terms of housing or transport. Its role is to apply all the avant-garde renewable energies so as to fight against the Parisian smog. This smog (smoke + fog) is a bluish to reddish haze. It is the result of the water condensing (the fog) on the suspended dust and the presence of ozone in the troposphere. The smoke is produced in major part by the burning of fossil fuel and is composed of sulphurous gas (such as sulphur dioxide) in addition to the dust on which the water steam contained in the fog condensates itself. This photochemical cloud is associated to many detrimental effects for the health (asthma, infarct, AVC) and for the environment (acid rains, attrition of the building).
BIOCUBE, NEW NATO HEADQUARTERS
LOCATION : European Quarter, Brussels
Our project forms a big crystalline cube in levitation, unsticked from the square it recovers, perfect prism towards whom all the strength lines focus, all the approach perspectives, and that contains all the rooms dedicated to the Council of Ministers. This prism covers the old alignment of the rue de la Loi, which enables to move slightly forward the buildings that surround it on both sides. By its absolute form (a perfect cube), it presents itself as per magic by transforming the location... Through its transparency, its clarity, it reveals the rooms, these high locations of meetings of European summit conferences, object of this consultation. It will be the only building really crystalline, and its double glass layer, its fine structure all in metal lace makes its so specific forms appears that are the receptacles of the rooms. The cube itself is the receptacle of this set and forms a second layer, as climatic as physiological.
