Within the district development Roissypôle has built this resort to increase the housing capacity for future new terminal at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
The architectural office Arte Charpentier Architects has been commissioned to design the project. Two volumes twinned flow around a small public space that acts as a hinge between the two. A luxury hotel and a more modest share the same expressive language in its facade.


Hotels Accor by Arte Charpentier Architects. Photography by Christophe Valtin.
 

Description of the project by Arte Charpentier Architects

A hotel centre to go with the airport development
In Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, the Roissypôle business district offers more than 230 000 m² of offices and 2 200 hotel rooms available by the end of 2014. As air traffic keeps growing and the construction of a fourth terminal was planned, Roissypôle’s development is in full swing.

Winner of a March 2011 competition hosted by the Paris Airports, on a 4 102 m² space,

Arte Charpentier Architectes has designed two distinct hotels for the Accor group: a building housing an ibis Styles (308 rooms) hotel on the corner of the Lisbonne and New York streets and a building for the prestigious Pullman (305 rooms) chain implanted along the la Haye street - that has also been designed according to its angle with the New York street.

A project integrated within its environment
The hotel project was designed to seamlessly integrate within its nearby environment, in articulation with the “Dome” and the future T4 terminal.

Right in front of the RER A’s « Aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle 1 » exit, the two ibis Styles and Pullman hotels share the same kind of outline and their frame are innovative. Despite its thin silhouette and its irregular facade in front of the Dome, the hotel centre creates a strong visual impact, making those buildings appear as doors to the city.

The gap between the hotels creates a convivial space that is partially protected by a glassing in the form of flower petals; a true catalyst for city life, a place to drink, share moments or just go through. The street level is lively. The activities offered to generate commercial activity. The two hotels’ reception areas and restaurants are glassed and enable customers to enjoy a view of the outside. The Pullman street level’s generous height opens onto public space and enables satisfying both the hotel owners and users but also the city and its passersby.

A direct, bright and resolutely modern architecture
To break with the thickness usually entailed by a program of this size, Arte Charpentier went for a project in which volumes were subtly fragmented by cut-off points. The fluidity of the lines and curves of the structure was proof of the intention to lighten the frames.

The two buildings’ facades have been treated in the same way:
- The colour and materials have been picked for their brightness
- Silk-screened glass partially covers the glassing, drawing an aesthetic and modern checkerboard pattern. An optical illusion is thus created along the buildings’ frames.
- Thousands of LEDs create lines along the facades; they light the buildings up day and night.

This is why the buildings are bright and white even in bad weather. They help visitors orientate themselves while renewing Roissypole’s image.

Quality volumes
Ibis Styles - 2015, a Style Odyssey
The hotel’s interior design revolves around wide spacing. The ground floor was devised as a wellness centre. Its reception desk was subtly integrated into a waiting and resting area that is near the restaurant area and largely open towards the outside. The design allows for a smooth visitor flow.

Pullman - The First Class Experience
This high-class hotel’s whole ground floor unfolds over two levels for visitors, from the reception area to the restaurant, including the bar. In this very open space, Arte Charpentier offers customers a broad experience with its welcoming, relaxation, meeting and tasting areas as well as its visual appeal.

From the plenary hall to the smaller modular rooms, meeting spaces are allocated among the last two floors. They offer users a breathtaking view of the airstrips.

Arte Charpentier imagined an exceptional wellness centre in the basement; it includes a hammam, a sauna and a fitness centre.

An ambitious landscape planning
As a part of the project the agency also designed the landscapes, from gardening to soil treatment and public spaces.

The shared mineral forecourt between the two hotels unfolds a bright sanded concrete carpet. A broken line of Corten steel meanders under the central awning towards a planted knoll that creates a veritable organic reserve. Along the way, this steel strip shifts into bench seats and allows hotel customers to sit.

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Structure.- Conception service consulting.
Façade.- Façade 2000.
Light specialist.- Gilles Richard.
Interior decoration.- Ibis.- Agence Blanchet d’Istria / Pullman.- Christophe Pillet.
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Eiffage Construction Val de Seine.
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25,000 sqm.
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2015.
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Roissypole, France.
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Christophe Valtin.
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Arte Charpentier is an architecture firm based in Paris, Lyon and Shanghai.

Pierre Clément. Associate Architect & Urbanist, Chairman. He is Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite. Architect, urban planner, author and collaborator of numerous books, and professor at the Paris Belleville School of Architecture.

Abbès Tahir graduated with honours from the Paris Villemin school of architecture in 1991 with a request for publication on his theme of verticality in urban centres. He completed his training, by developing his expertise with a number of large construction groups. His passion for metal and glass architecture led him to participate in international consultations. He joined Arte Charpentier in 1991. Since joining the firm, he has conveyed his professional values: architecture to serve mankind, combining technical experimentation and the contextual environment. He has actively participated in large-scale projects for public facilities, for example by designing the Saint-Lazare station (Meteor) of metro line 14. He also designed the Saint-Lazare "lens" used to access the station on Court de Rome, in Paris. His design won the Eurotunnel passenger terminal competition at Coquelles. He managed the territorial coherency master plan for the Bay of Algiers project in Algeria. He was responsible for the design and construction of the El-Ali complex in Setif. In Touba, Senegal, he headed the design team for the Serigne Fallou estate (population of 25,000 over 300ha). He designed street furniture for Century Avenue, in Shanghai,  China. In May 2010, he became Deputy CEO and manages the firm development on national and international levels.

Andrew Hobson trained at the Architectural Association in London and has an international record of achievement on a wide range of complex architectural projects, notably the Musée d’Orsay and the Arsenal Pavilion. Andrew joined Arte Charpentier in 1987 and has participated in a number of international and national tender applications. He is responsible for a number of successful projects, including the Shanghai Grand Theatre (Gold Medal of Architecture), the Meridian hotel in Noumea, and Central Square in Pudong. Appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2010 and Project Director, he is one of the agency's leading design architects. Andrew is responsible for architectural respect, quality of concept, conformity to the programme, as well as resource management, cost control, and the objectives of the firm’s most prestigious projects. He is also the driving force behind the agency’s international development, represented by the creation of an agency branch in Shanghai and frequent collaborative projects with renowned international agencies in France and abroad (Sir Norman Foster, Faulkner Browns, HOK, etc.).

Jérôme Le Gall trained at the architecture schools of both Paris La Seine and Columbia University in New York. During his first years of experience, he acquired great expertise in his field. He designs and oversees projects for campuses, head offices for large companies, and the rehabilitation of buildings for industrial heritage sites. In May 2010, he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer. He first joined Arte Charpentier in 1987, participating in a number of successful tenders, including that of the "Dome" in Roissy – a street covered with a canopy, the first of its kind in France – and the Renault site in Boulogne. In 1996, he became a Partner in the firm. From design to delivery, he has supervised complex tertiary projects in historic urban sites for EDF Montpellier (head office of the Languedoc Roussillon Energy Unit). He has completed detailed studies for complex office projects in Montrouge, La Défense in the Triangle de l'Arche district, and in Vélizy. He has specific expertise in the design and construction of campuses of various sizes (Dassault-Systèmes, Véolia Environnement, the Oxygène tower, CDC Ixis head office, Cégédim head office, the Palatin I, II and III buildings, Praetorium, Portes de France, MP3, etc.). As head of the agency's "housing" team, he has designed projects in Paris for RIVP, a neighbourhood of 800 homes in Cavaillon, an apartment building in Lyon in the Buire commercial district and several buildings in Asnières and Eiffage for hotels and student residences. He has also worked for investors on major renovation projects in Paris to upgrade housing estates in historic sites (Richelieu, Vivienne, Ville l’Evêque, rue Joubert, an office building project built on the Eole Condorcet station in Paris). Jérôme is also a member of the French architecture academy. He gives conferences at the Ecole Polytechnique Féminine, at the Organisme de l'Acier on the subject of metal structured construction, at Ecole Centrale Paris and at Mipim.
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Published on: September 20, 2016
Cite: "Hotels Accor by Arte Charpentier Architects" METALOCUS. Accessed
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