PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The functional program is predominantly a new program.

The transformation program of the building complex has two dimensions and two categories of problems that are completely different and almost separate from one another. ...

TOTAL REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: Financing made entirely by an investor other than property.

The complete works financing was supported by the city of Klagenfurt, which acquired the entire building over time. This slow acquisition has been a further ...

NO VARIATION
TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are equal to the pre-existing surface.

The project does not foresee changes in the volume of the existing building. The only change was the opening of the patio on the third ...

NO VARIATION
TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are equal to the pre-existing volume.

The project does not foresee changes in the volume of the existing building. The only change was the opening of the patio on the third ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: There are no new spaces.

The project does not foresee changes in the surfaces of the existing building. The arrangement of the ground floor with the covered public connections to ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The original supporting structure is fully preserved and there are no new structures.

The structure of the existing building is the only part that has remained unchanged. Its rather slim sizing has forced to realize, where possible, a ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The materials chosen for the new intervention are similar to the pre-existing ones.

The project includes simple, durable and inexpensive materials. The floor was made with a special smoothed cement, colored in paste. The windows are in white ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The new intervention is in total mimetic continuity with the existing structures.

The new spatial configuration is based on a model recalling a historical urban fabric. The offices are positioned along the perimeter and overlook, almost like ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The functional program remains the original one.

In the mid-1980s, Mitterrandian France imagined healing the “evil of the suburbs” by organizing a series of identity refounding projects born from the offer that ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The investor is the property owner.

In this case, the project is initiated by the municipal authorities. The program is finalized with the local mixed economy society that finances the private ...

EXTENSION
PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions increase moderately with respect to the pre-existing surface.

This project manages a large urban space in relation to the density of the local urban fabric. The development of the portico runs along 230 ...

NO VARIATION
TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are equal to the pre-existing volume.

This project manages a large urban space in relation to the density of the local urban fabric. The development of the portico runs along 230 ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: There are no new spaces.

This project manages a large urban space in relation to the density of the local urban fabric. The development of the portico runs along 230 ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The original supporting structure is fully preserved and there are no new structures.

In Saint-Priest, the immediate environment consists mainly of private condominiums housing the exploded people of social housing complexes. The buildings occupy their plots regardless of ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The materials chosen for the new intervention are similar to the pre-existing ones.

The urban form proposed and conceived as an element that makes you forget the path of the streets. Each program of the project finds its ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The new intervention is in total mimetic continuity with the existing structures.

This project is the first realization to emerge from a theoretical position on the pre-eminence of topology over the other protagonists of architectural work: history, ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new program is in balance with the existing one.

The aim of the developer did not differ much from the original aim ~100 years ago – to have as many compact rental apartments, only ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The investor is the property owner.

The property owner is the investor.

EXTENSION
PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions increase moderately with respect to the pre-existing surface.

The different characters of the street and courtyard buildings lead to the different approach of the reconstruction. Street building – the added mansard floor apartments ...

EXTENSION
PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions increase moderately with respect to the pre-existing volume.

The different characters of the street and courtyard buildings lead to the different approach of the reconstruction. Street building – the added mansard floor apartments ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new spaces are in balance with respect to the pre- existing spaces.

The pre-existing spaces are given new planing. Pre-existing apartments are being modified to meet the standards of nowadays. The main transformations in the volume are ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The original supporting structure is fully preserved and there are no new structures.

The original supporting structures are kept and reinforced to meet the necessary requirements according to the load added with the new structures.

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The materials chosen for the new intervention balance similarities and differences with the existing ones.

The original supporting structures are brick load-bearing walls and timber floor beams. The new supporting structure is mostly timber with several steal elements needed. In ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new intervention balances elements of continuity and discontinuity with respect to existing structures.

The different characters of the street and courtyard buildings lead to the different approach of the reconstruction. Street building – the added mansard floor apartments ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new program is in balance with the existing one.

The project consisted of the demolition-reconstruction of two existing buildings that are obsolete in terms of use and energy consumption: a triangular building from the ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The investor is the property owner.

The investor is the property owner. This is a restructuring in the existing vocational high school, funded entirely by the region Ile de France, that ...

EXTENSION
PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions increase moderately with respect to the pre-existing surface.

The project involves the demolition and reconstruction of a technical workshop and the documentation and information center (CDI) of the Aristide Briand vocational high school ...

EXTENSION
PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions increase moderately with respect to the pre-existing volume.

The project involves the demolition and reconstruction of a technical workshop and the documentation and information center (CDI) of the Aristide Briand vocational high school ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new spaces are in balance with respect to the pre- existing spaces.

The transformation of the entrance is an important element of the project: the demolition of 2 existing gantries, out of scale, and the taking into ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The supporting structure is composed in a balanced way by pre-existing structures and new structures.

The choice of a concrete structure in post-beams allows the flexibility of spaces for possible transformation in time.

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The materials chosen for the new intervention balance similarities and differences with the existing ones.

The choice of reinforced concrete, was made in a will of perenity of the material, simplicity and economy of implementation (no coating, interior insulation). The ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new intervention balances elements of continuity and discontinuity with respect to existing structures.

The decision to locate the CDI at the centre of the project comes from a will to incite the students to stroll around that space. ...