The buildings' life is often longer than that of the activities they host. This project assumes that fact as a principle, and is defined in the medium-term program's mutability.
TANK arquitectes are the authors of this work in the small town of Tourcoing, in northern France, in the northern département, located near the Belgian border and Lille. The structure of the project is designed with the intention of making free layout distributions, and therefore a structural façade of geometry similar to a honeycomb is used. Thanks to this system, La Ruche d'entreprise houses offices for "young" companies - dynamic and in constant movement - and it can adapt itself easily to the new future needs. A building built for the future.The photographer Julien Lanoo brings us to the building with this report.

The hive of small enterprises is located in the heart of the site La Tossée in Tourcoing (North of France). The program brings together a hive of innovative textile companies and a 450-spaces-silo parking. The two programs are combined within a single entity.

The medium-term mutability of the parking in a tertiary program is made possible by a peripheral-honeycomb-structure releasing trays of all bearing points. The project builds on both flagships of the industrial revolution and textile industry to federate a context carried by a blend of history and innovation.
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Project description
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Environmental measure.- HQE, BBC effinergie.
Project manager.- Franck Landrot, Tiphaine Vasseur.
BET & VRD, engineering and roadworks studies.- Projex Ingénierie
HQE, sustainable development.- Diagobat.
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Conseil Général du Nord - Sem Ville Renouvelee – Saem Euralille.
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6,370 sqm.





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Project surface Ruche
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6,582 sqm.
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Project surface parking
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10,888 sqm.
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€ 13,109,209
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€750.
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Tourcoing (59) France.
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Delivered december 2015.
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Olivier Camus and Lydéric Veauvy. Graduates with distinction from the Superior Institute of Architecture (ISA) St Luc in Tournai, Belgium (1998 and 1999). After seven years of professional affinities, they created TANK Architectes in 2005. They are winners of the European 40 under 40 2011, awarded by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. TANK was also awarded the 3rd Trophy of Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes (NAJA) in 2006. They have several publications to his back, and have been invited to several conferences and exhibitions in places like the National School of Architecture of Grenoble (ENSAG).

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