Domes on the Roof: Lightness and Airiness

The offices of NP2F architectes and L’Effet urbain, have won the Reinventing Paris II request for innovative urban project proposals for the Centre de Repartition Laumiere site in Paris (19th arrondissement), a former electrical substation, with their proposal for an urban hotel dedicated to sports and sportspeople: Laumiere+.

The Centre de Repartition Laumiere is a listed historical site of the city of Paris and part of the city’s industrial architectural heritage of electrical facilities. Its particularly dynamic and recreational role in the 19th arrondissement underscores the broader theme of energy associated with the location. 

The project concept is comprised of a hotel entirely dedicated to sports. The goal is to provide a unifying, inclusive, sports-oriented place offering a hybrid type of accommodations for sportspeople and their fans, as well as an original program open to the wider public, all housed inside a refurbished historic building. 

ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTION

The architectural proposal takes advantage of all the existing spaces by reorganizing them to create a unique and innovative space for Paris. The entire existing volume will be used (almost 4,000 m3) and restructured to allow for collective and shared uses. Existing architectural elements will be preserved: the street facade, the vertical structural elements on in the interior and on the periphery as well as the existing flooring on the ground floor. The project will be lightly and delicately slipped inside this infrastructure, both conserving it and enhancing it with noble and ecological materials. As Jean-Louis Missika explains, “Remaking the city on top of the city is a delicate act of urban couture.” 

 Materials provided by NP2F 

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