D House

location
Haut de Seine (92) France

type
singular family-housse

client
private

year
2020

budget
n.c

surface
164 m² SHAB

certification(s)
PassivHaus

images 
© SCHNEPP-RENOU (photographies)

 

Meininger Hotel

location
Bordeaux (33) France

type
Hotel

client
Meiniger Hotels

Architect
Patrick Arotcharen (building)
KARAWITZ (interior design)

year
2021

budget
n.c

surface
4 900 m² SHAB

certification(s)

pictures
Schnepp&Renou

 

 

 

Impasse Barbesant

location

Hyères, France (83)

type

construction de 50 logements sociaux

client

Logirem

contractor

Symoé – Karawitz architectes – OhSom! architectes

year

ongoing

budget

NC

surface

3 165 m² SHAB

certification(s)

passive

Rue des Camélias

location
Paris 14ème

type
22 apartments

client
Batigère en Ile de France

year
competition 2021

budget
2,4 Mio€

surface
1 150 m² SHAB

certification(s)
Cerqual HQE, E3 C1

images 
© ArtefactoryLab  (perspectives)

Hotel in Austria

location
Austria

type
restructuring and extension of hotel

client
private

year
ongoing

budget
n.c.

surface
1195 m²

 

EHPAD Ste Clotilde

place
Coulanges-sur-Yonne (89)

type
restructuring and extension of a retirement home

client
Résidence Sainte Clotilde

competition won in
2020

surface
3 750 m²

budget
6,0 M€

certification(s)
Passive

 

House in Seignosse

location
Seignosse, France (40)

type
singular family-house
+ friend’s house

client
private

year
competition 2021

budget
762 100 €

surface
344 m² SHAB

certification(s)
Passive

images 
© ArtefactoryLab  (perspectives)

 

Ecolodges Futuroscope

location
Futuroscope Theme Park – Jaunay-Clan (86)

type
hotel resort with 120 ecological lodges

client
Futuroscope

year
competition 2021

budget
11,4 Mio€

surface
28 x 120 m²

certification(s)
E3C1

images 
© ArtefactoryLab  (perspectives)

House in Houlgate

location
Houlgate, France (14)

type
singular family-house

client
private

year
2020

budget
n.c.

surface
180 m²

certification(s)
RT 2012

award
finalist for the IDF regional of the wood construction award 2022
« living in a house » category

images 
© SCHNEPP-RENOU (photographies)

Simply set in its generously sloping plot, this house « nestled in the hill » culminates in its natural environment. This architectural intent is reinforced by the contemporary use of traditional regional materials: natural wood and slate- cladding, worthy representatives of Normandy’s history.

The ramp dug into the natural site leads to a carport, covered by a vast cantilevered terrace, and to the access to the semi-buried basement. This gravelled ramp extends to the garden level, directly to the main living areas.

The house has a contemporary architectural style with its basement, ground- and first floor. The wooden timber structure and framework of the house are built on a semi-buried masonry base. The choice of facade materials underlines the distribution of the built mass into several interlocking volumes, linked by a vast living space under a glass-roof. As the house is south-facing, its volumes also act as a solar cap, naturally protecting the interior and exterior spaces. Each interior space opens generously onto the Calvados seaside valley, framing the surrounding green landscape.

Savigny-le-Temple

place
Savigny-le-Temple, France

type
56 apartments and retail

client
Expansiel, groupe Valophis + SODES

year
concours 2014, livraison 2019

surface
4 850 m²

budget
6,3 Mio €

certifications
BBC Effinergie+, passive heating level,
Bio-sourced building level 1 needed (level 2 reached),
NF habitat HQE very high performance

Award(s)
Adème Life Cycle Analysis Award
Trophée OR Performance des Coop’ HLM 2020

images 
© SCHNEPP-RENOU (photographies)

Sustainable housing

This 56-living units building is located in an urban renewal zone in the « grand-Paris » area, in Savigny-le-Temple (Seine-et-Marne). It is innovative in several ways: firstly, it is the result of one of the first BIM competitions launched in France in 2014, and it was on this occasion that the agency took the turn of this building data modelling system.

Not content with this novelty, the dwellings are also aiming for the passive level and are experimenting with an innovative construction technique coupled with bio-sourced materials: prefabricated wooden facades, which until now have not had any technical approval for a building of more than two levels, are placed on the structure and then insulated with wood wool. In addition to these two precursory aspects, the volume is well integrated into its site and the programme is treated in superimposed layers to reduce the thickness of a passive volume.

Just a stone’s throw from the 1970s Miroir d’Eau shopping centre, which is due to be demolished and rebuilt in the near future, the building develops in a U shape with three sides facing Avenue Charles de Gaulle and the future car park of the new shopping centre. The heart of the block is treated as a vast green space on two levels and opens up widely to the south-east towards the lake below. A passageway connects the street to this green courtyard, which contains the three access halls to the flats. The programme is spread out in three horizontal strata that can be seen in the façade. The shops on the street are lined up along a wide glazed ground floor. The three upper levels are made up of flats and alternate on the façade between windows and vast loggias connected to the living rooms and kitchens of the large flats. The attica also hosts flats in the form of pavilions clad in galvanised steel.