Trudaine
A "couture" project between the city of yesterday and the city of tomorrow.
Trudaine
SCCV Paris Trudaine
Rehabilitation of a heritage block into offices, social housing and nursery.
Paris, France
2022
9,200 m²
Bechu & Associés
Associated architecture : DVVD (mandataire)
HQE, Wired Score, BREEAM, NF Habitat
© Nicolas Grosmond
Intervening on an existing architecture is an act that always invites great responsibility.
Intervening on an existing architecture is an act that always invites great responsibility. Even more so when it falls to one to follow in the footsteps of a great figure of late 19th century french architecture such as Juste Lisch, and when it concerns a school. Thus, beyond the particular attention to be paid to the restoration and enhancement of an exceptional heritage that will undoubtedly one day be protected as a Historic Monument, it is also essential to consider how to carry it through time while preserving its primary mission of public interest.
Reopening the building to its neighborhood, and facilitating the integration of a mixed and vibrant project within it.
To reopen the building to its neighborhood, and facilitate the integration of a mixed and vibrant project within it, our first intention was to dress and integrate the interior concrete extension that had been placed in the center and was 'asphyxiating' the whole. We attached a glass skirt to it to recreate space and organize different typologies of work and meeting places for the benefit of the offices. Such a resolutely contemporary gesture also symbolically demonstrates that Paris remains a place where architecture can assert itself as a grand couturier.
Trudaine thus transformed now becomes a beating heart for its neighborhood.
Housing and nursery humbly slip into the existing volumes of the rear courtyard, respectfully restored and raised to ensure their enhancement. The 39 Trudaine thus transformed now becomes a beating heart for its neighborhood. It retains its vocation as a place of exchange, education and transmission of knowledge, and pays homage to Malraux's famous formula: tradition is not born from imitation but from confrontation.
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