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Galeo

This is a project by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc and it is located at ZAC Forum Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Project's program: Multi-program of offices, a business restaurant, retail, multi-function commercial spaces and a 5 level place car park with 492 places. There are fourteen images for Galeo.

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Project details

Project name: Galeo
Location: ZAC Forum Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Program: Multi-program of offices, a business restaurant, retail, multi-function commercial spaces and a 5 level place car park with 492 places
Area: Total: 24,000 m2 • Offices: 19,300 m2 • Retail: 500 m2 • Warehouses: 585 m2
Year: Commissioned: 2004 • Completion: 2009
Client: Bouygues Immobilier
Project by: Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
Team: Architect: Christian de Portzamparc • Conception and development: Bertrand Beau, Karol Claverie, Bruno Durbecq, Chantal Aïra-Crouan, Nicolas Gicquel, Sébastien Menu, Constantin Döhler, Thierry Damez-Fontaine, Chiara Frati, André Pinto, Jeanne Ravet, Bettina Reali • Construction: Bertrand Beau, Chantal Aïra-Crouan, Marion Barray, Julien Lissarrague, Erwan Saliva, Barbara Bottet • Concrete: Christian de Portzamparc, Martin Wallace • Interior Architect (Business Restaurant - Cafétéria): Elizabeth De Portzamparc
Others: Structure: SIDF • Façades: RFR • MEP: SFICA • Electricity: ABEX • Environmental consultant: TRIBU

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Designer's statement

Bouygues Real Estate Headquarters:

The project is composed of three buildings, it’s an ensemble which while being urban is formed of two contrasting architectural expressions.

The block has been opened, with a public path crossing the site and existing workers lodgings and ancient millstones integrated into a whole.

The Galeo building, Head office for the #1 developer in France: Bouygues Immobilier, denotes the entrance of the town of issy Les Moulineaux from Paris. It constitutes a signal from the quay of the River Seine and the peripherique highway (that encircles Paris), it’s form and its surface of printed glass scales take on a cinemagraphic dimension: it is a « lamp » visible at night. The double skin also plays a practical role, insulating the office floors from fluctuations in environmental temperature.

The lenght of the road, the two office buildings Dueo and Trieo, offer a contrast of materials with their wall of performed concrete panels.

The entire project is acredited HQE for a high quality environmental performance.