• PROJECT
    MacDonald Warehouse Offices
  • LOCATION
    Paris, 19e
  • CLIENT
    BNP Paribas Real Estate et ICADE
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT
    François Leclercq, Marc Mimram Architecture et Ingénierie, Arcoba Ingénierie, D’ici là, paysagiste
  • DATES
    2009 — 2014
  • AREA
    27 500 m²
  • COST
    44 M €
  • ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATIONS
    Certification HQE - Passeport excellent Label BBC
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Operation Macdonald consisted of erecting a storage building situated along the railway and road infrastructures in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. This huge logistics building taken over by the city was no longer operating and led the urban planners in charge of this sector to develop a unique urban piece : a meta-block, a district inscribed on a common base of 600 m long and 90 m wide and which would accommodate housing, offices, equipments and shops.

The existing two-storey building, designed from the outset to be raised on one hand and freed from its logistical use on the other part, could accommodate 5 additional raised floors. Marc Mimram Architecture & Associés and Marc Mimram Ingénierie were in charge of developing the 24,000 m² offices program on 5 new levels.

The postulate was to use a light structure and to place the project in a perfect continuity with the existing framework to avoid as much as possible underpinning. This initial approach made it possible to develop a 110 m by 80 m tertiary project with patios and a distributive street, each part of which fits perfectly into the frame: a common module which regulates the thickness of the office floors as well as the the influence of free spaces.