Reverside Janus

6 december 2019

Project: Reverside Janus, Gentilly | France
Architect: Brénac et Gonzales, Paris | France
Fabricator: Tim Composites, Cholet | France
Installer: SETAL, Montbéliard | France
Façade System: Tray Panels Special Design
Year of Construction: 2017
Product: ALUCOBOND® PLUS naturAL Reflect & Anodized Look C0/EV1
Photos: Sergio Grazia

GENTILLY’S CHAMELEON

In Paris-Gentilly, workers and employees live in a colourful, tight-knit and upbeat neighbourhood, far removed from Parisian chic. However, increasing property prices in the city centre have started spilling over into the suburbs. What used to be quite a bleak site close to the city motorway is now a perfect location for new offices, but the small-town style buildings behind it do not really fit in with increasingly tall, glossy architecture of the periphery. Lodged between old and new, the architects Brénac and Gonzales have built an office block with a façade which encapsulates the contrasts of its surroundings. Since the south side of the building faces towards the residential district, it is given a homely look: balconies with wooden decking in front of green façade panels and steel nets where Virginia creeper grows. The façade design on the lustrous, futuristic north side overlooking the motorway also mirrors the direct surroundings. The architects have lightly pleated the façade and used a cladding of ALUCOBOND® Anodized Look Silver panels facing one direction and ALUCOBOND® naturAL Reflect on the other. The effect is striking: the matt silver panels are infused with the constantly changing colours of the sky, which never really gets dark in the greater Paris region; the mirror elements reflect passing cars, pedestrians, trees and the green wall at the motorway more distinctly. Gentilly and Paris merge into a mosaic image on the north façade. This mosaic seems to change depending on perspectives or varying weather and natural light conditions, and this, in turn, impacts the appearance of the building. Sometimes it seems tangible and robust, sometimes it merges with the sky, looking light and ephemeral. The architects have created a chameleon-like building which can master changes in the Parisian suburbs with prodigious ease.

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