(Boursier.com) — Kaufman & Broad, in partnership with co-developers Idevi and Palladio, delivers The Place, a new office building in Montrouge, in the heart of the new district that is developing around the emblematic Vache Noire shopping center. The work was entrusted to Bateg, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction.
Located at 134-136, avenue Aristide Briand, in the immediate vicinity of La Porte d’Orléans and the Châtillon-Montrouge transport hub, The Place stands out as a strategic asset due to its location and its service by transport axes in major common areas such as line 4, RER B and by 2024, the future metro line 15.
The building, located in the ZAC de la Vache Noire district, supports the renewal and dynamism of the rapidly developing district where many companies choose to build their offices there because of the proximity to the capital and all shops nearby.
The Place is a ground floor and garden level office building, comprising seven floors ranging from 870 to 1,400 m2, two of which have an outdoor terrace, for a total leasable area of 10,147 m2. The large workspaces can accommodate 900 workstations.
The user, placed at the heart of the project, will be able to take advantage of the provision of more than 1,000 m2 of services and shared spaces including a fitness room, a bike club, a restaurant serving up to 200 people, a coffee shop, multipurpose rooms for organizing events on site as well as 300 m(2) of terraces and green spaces and a 119-space car park.
Imagined and designed by the architecture firm Bechu & Associés, The Place is inspired by Haussmann buildings. Its comfortable, bright and flexible volumes, designed to accommodate new ways of working, thanks to modular spaces, make it possible to increase the creativity of employees. The structure of the building, marked by two large intersecting stone monoliths, with, in the background, a wall of backlit photographic planes, plays on transparency to let in light. A major technical challenge was met with the addition of bow windows on the facade that punctuate the natural stone envelope of the building.
Characteristic of Kaufman & Broad’s know-how, the technical design of the project is concerned, in all respects, with the environmental challenges of tomorrow by aiming for Breeam Very Good and HQE Excellent certifications associated with the Effinergie + label.