Bains-Douches & Co: Flat-Shearing and Co-Working

Situated in the East of the 15th arrondissement, the plot at 34 Rue Castagnary houses the old public baths in a red brick building that is typical of the 1930s. With its unique interior featuring showers, waiting rooms and staff apartments, this house is an open invitation for great innovation in terms of usage. It is built in the shape of an arrow pointing at a lively square in the district, has high visibility and looked just like waiting for original projects. Within the framework of the tender “Reinventing Paris” (“Réinventer Paris”) RED-architectes company offered an original project of transformation of the site, which was chosen as the winner.

Bains-Douches & Co is a project of collocation and coworking settled in the former public baths Castagnary. The building innovates in the promotion of the Parisian architectural heritage by emphasizing it with a vegetal screen. Innovation serves ecology: the bioclimatic project et the wood structure allows an environmental impact reduced by half and demonstrates that the architects could design and build otherwise. This building, typical of 1930’s, red brick, housed bainsdouches. The establishment was permanently closed in October 2011, and is currently placed at the disposal of the collective “the hand” by agreement of temporary occupation.

The specifications of “Reinventing Paris” are anticipated that this program contains of housing, of which 30% social housing. With the project “En-suite-shower&Co”, Red Architectes wished to propose a project whose design is innovative both in terms of construction and in its use, while respecting the current building, which they consider to be a remarkable architecture. The architects created a really innovative building by its construction and its use. The challenge of this site is to demonstrate that they can innovate Paris and respect the remarkable architecture of the current building which is a former public bath.

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