VAL-DE-FONTENAY BANK, PARIS


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VAL-DE-FONTENAY BANK PARIS


Origamitecture


The new office complex for bank Société Générale in Val-de-Fontenay, eastern Paris, resembles three folds in a giant sheet of paper –formed from over 200 km of reconstituted Japanese wood strips. Stephen Cousins investigates


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aced with the task of cramming 90,000 m2 23,000 m2


of new office space onto a plot of land, in the


Fontenay-sous-Bois district of eastern Paris, the last thing architect Anne Démians wanted to do was create an unsightly glass and metal high rise. The client, prominent French banking group Société Générale, was eager to trans- form the dour image of the banking


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profession, and provide its employees with a people-centred building, catering to modern technological working methods, with a futuristic aesthetic and strong credentials of environmental sustainability. The solution was to fold up the terrain, like a sheet of paper, to create three sensual, wave-shaped blocks that appear to emerge directly from the landscape. The new divi- sion of Société Générale at Val-de-Fontenay,


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