Les Docks, Cité de la Mode et du Design
Cité de la Mode et du Design
An aerial precedent for adaptive reuse of industrial riverfront structures using bold, parametric plug-in facade systems.
- What we like about this project
- The organic green pipe-like skin completely envelopes the middle levels while leaving the lower colonnade open to the river.
Materials
- painted-metal-mesh
- concrete
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- undulating-facade
- bright-green-mesh
- waterfront-warehouse
- plug-in-structure
Style tags
- parametric
- contemporary
- expressive
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- urban-intervention
- contemporary
- waterfront
- parametric
- Geometry
- An undulating, plug-in tubular metallic mesh structure wraps the horizontal profile of an existing concrete warehouse alongside a river edge, contrasting organic curves against orthogonal massing and high-rise urban backdrop.
- Facade system
- Custom expanded metal mesh screen in lime green over structural steel armature.
- Structural guess
- Steel tubular exoskeleton anchored to a heavy concrete post-and-beam warehouse structure.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban intervention spanning a multi-story waterfront warehouse length.
- Lighting
- Direct daylight casting sharp shadows across the green mesh and waterfront concrete colonnade.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, high-contrast urban energy set against the calm river surface.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban waterfront setting along a riverbank with an extensive high-rise residential and commercial skyline behind.
- Spatial experience
- The intervention transforms an industrial river edge into a striking architectural landmark, creating a continuous dynamic skin that bridges between water and city skyline.
- Composition rhythm
- Fluid, continuous horizontal waves of green mesh contrasting with the strict vertical rhythms of the underlying concrete columns and background towers.
- Style reading
- Parametric contemporary urban intervention
- Program
- Cultural and fashion center / public exhibition space
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-metal-mesh, concrete, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- undulating-facade, bright-green-mesh, waterfront-warehouse, plug-in-structure
- Style tags
- parametric, contemporary, expressive
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, urban-intervention, contemporary, waterfront, parametric
- Geometry
- An undulating, plug-in tubular metallic mesh structure wraps the horizontal profile of an existing concrete warehouse alongside a river edge, contrasting organic curves against orthogonal massing and high-rise urban backdrop.
- Facade system
- Custom expanded metal mesh screen in lime green over structural steel armature.
- Structural guess
- Steel tubular exoskeleton anchored to a heavy concrete post-and-beam warehouse structure.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban intervention spanning a multi-story waterfront warehouse length.
- Lighting
- Direct daylight casting sharp shadows across the green mesh and waterfront concrete colonnade.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, high-contrast urban energy set against the calm river surface.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban waterfront setting along a riverbank with an extensive high-rise residential and commercial skyline behind.
- Spatial experience
- The intervention transforms an industrial river edge into a striking architectural landmark, creating a continuous dynamic skin that bridges between water and city skyline.
- Composition rhythm
- Fluid, continuous horizontal waves of green mesh contrasting with the strict vertical rhythms of the underlying concrete columns and background towers.
- Style reading
- Parametric contemporary urban intervention
- Program
- Cultural and fashion center / public exhibition space
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture