Modular and nomadic building in Paris. Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes
23/06/2020.
[Paris] France
metalocus, VALERIA OZUNA
metalocus, VALERIA OZUNA
Djuric Tardio Architectes has completed the project for the removable and rebuildable wooden nursery in the Luxembourg Gardens, one of the most popular places in Paris for both Parisians and tourists.
The construction of the nursery is temporary since the building will be dismantled and reassembled in another part of Paris, but in another configuration that remains free thanks to interchangeable and identical modules. The site where the modular building is currently located will be restored after two years.
The proposal uses a technical solution that questions the construction processes of the wood industry and its possible economic models, becoming a final resource after its use in emergencies.
The construction of the nursery is temporary since the building will be dismantled and reassembled in another part of Paris, but in another configuration that remains free thanks to interchangeable and identical modules. The site where the modular building is currently located will be restored after two years.
The proposal uses a technical solution that questions the construction processes of the wood industry and its possible economic models, becoming a final resource after its use in emergencies.
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Site plan. Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes
Ground floor. Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes
First floor plan. Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes
Section. Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes
Details. Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Wooden nursery in Luxembourg Gardens by Djuric Tardio Architectes. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
The concept used by Djuric Tardio Architectes in the 525m² building aims to explore prefabrication in wood construction and to demonstrate the ease of assembly (and reassembly) and the quality of execution derived from it, which allow the rapid and reversible realization of buildings with high thermal performance.
The primary metal structure is inspired by the Jean Prouvé porticoes and allows the quick assembly of the 120cm self-supporting modules using assemblies borrowed from traditional Japanese systems. The modular construction system has the COMBI name, thanks to its use it will be able to meet the needs of temporary buildings during the health crisis.
The primary metal structure is inspired by the Jean Prouvé porticoes and allows the quick assembly of the 120cm self-supporting modules using assemblies borrowed from traditional Japanese systems. The modular construction system has the COMBI name, thanks to its use it will be able to meet the needs of temporary buildings during the health crisis.
Project description by Djuric Tardio Architectes
The project concept grew out of a phase of research and development by the office. The request for proposals issued by the municipal government of Paris was an opportunity to implement this system to build a 48-cradle nursery.
Modular and nomadic, the building fulfills the requirements for rehousing Parisian children deprived of their usual child care establishments undergoing works. Thus, the building is designed to be disassembled, moved and reassembled.
Inaugurated in the 6th arrondissement where it will remain for 2 years, thereafter the nursery will be relocated to the 13th arrondissement, in keeping with the specifications brief.
The French Senate made available to the city of Paris an area of the Jardin du Luxembourg located close to the Rue Guynemer. The sloping, tree-lined alley, whose tree roots could not be damaged by the construction, lay above quarries located at a depth of 15m below, which threatened the stability of the ground and trees above.
The temporary construction of the nursery provided the Senate with the opportunity to fill these dangerous underlying cavities. The site will be restored to its initial state in 2 years’ time thanks to foundations on micropiles.
The Jardin du Luxembourg is an exceptional site. Therefore, the building had to take into account the constraint of a short-term existence and the requirement of a harmonious insertion.
This high-performing and bio-sourced building was designed with the principle of reversibility. It can be entirely reconfigured to be utilized for this program or others (emergency housing, offices, etc.), in order to serve new needs and future uses. The Luxembourg site will be identically returned to its original state in two years and the building will be erected elsewhere.
The design of the nursery is based on a primary dismountable structure inspired by a construction system of Jean Prouvé’s, enabling the manipulation of self-bearing modules. The assemblages are borrowed from traditional Japanese systems. The structural envelop is prefabricated in the workshop and the interior layout and utilities are also modular.
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Architects
Project team
Clara Hernande, Pauline Mariez, Henri Delion and Léa Morel.
Collaborators
Structure.- Bollinger + Grohmann. Economist.- VPEAS. M&E Engineer.- FACEA. Acoustics.-AVEL Acoustique.
Area
525 m².
Budget
€1,880,000 (excl. VAT).
Dates
Competition.- 2017. Construction.- 5 months. Delivery.- August 2019.
Localitation
(entrance to Jardin du Luxembourg). 5 Rue Guynemer, Paris 6ème, France.
Photography
Mirco Tardio, Caroline Djuric. Djuric Tardio Architectes
Djuric Tardio Architectes, is an architecture firm led by Mirco Tardio and Caroline Djuric.
Mirco Tardio was born on 1970. He has worked in different agencies in Paris, such as the Atelier d'Architecture Chaix & Morel et Associés and the Ateliers Jean Nouvel as project manager and then as a partner in the creative structure. At AJN, he led many projects on different programs: housing, hotels and shopping centers, offices, museums and public buildings.
Caroline Djuric was born in 1974. She has worked at the Atelier d'Architecture Chaix & Morel et Associés as project manager from 1996 to 2005 and then a year among the Jean Nouvel Workshops. She was in charge of major sports programs, museums and offices.
They founded the agency Djuric Tardio Architects in 2004. They focus their research on two main areas: frugal and responsible architecture and soft urban and peri-urban densification. Driven by a desire to optimize energy consumption and sustainability of the city, they defend, through their projects, a desire to develop an idea of architecture based on a low carbon footprint and a positive social impact.
Research and development are the common conditions guiding their projects. Their agency emphasizes the use of bioclimatic devices and bio-based materials from short circuits to allow the deployment of a frugal city.
They have therefore put in place an "evolving charter" of principles that they are deploying on the scale of their architectural and urban projects to offer energy-efficient constructions that evolve over time and in use. They design their new constructions of housing and equipment, so that they are modular and reversible, favoring prefabrication; a means of economic optimization and efficiency in the carbon footprint.
Currently, the agency is developing a variety of office rehabilitation projects in industrial zones; housing programs, from the most low-cost to the most prestigious; modular and temporary crèches for urban and rural areas as well as new projects and rehabilitation for Parisian social landlords and the City of Paris.
At the territorial level, Djuric-Tardio is extending its research to the energy autonomy of housing in the critical phases of electricity demand using TESLA-type storage cells. Work that leads architects to imagine a new configuration of smart grids.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS.-
2004. Winner of Europan 7.
2012. Lauriers de la Construction Bois Prize.
2012. Emerging Agency Award by WALLPAPER magazine.
2014. Special mention Futures Possibles pour IMBRICATIONS.
2014. EDF Low Carbon Award for NESTING.
2016. Special innovation award Caisse des Dépôts LAB Architecture for IMBRITACTION EXPOSITIONS.
2013. MAXXI Museum in Rome the STICK project is on display.
2015. MOMA in New York Helsinki Library project on display.
2016. Venice Biennale the IMBRICATION project is presented.
2019. Pisa Biennale.
Mirco Tardio was born on 1970. He has worked in different agencies in Paris, such as the Atelier d'Architecture Chaix & Morel et Associés and the Ateliers Jean Nouvel as project manager and then as a partner in the creative structure. At AJN, he led many projects on different programs: housing, hotels and shopping centers, offices, museums and public buildings.
Caroline Djuric was born in 1974. She has worked at the Atelier d'Architecture Chaix & Morel et Associés as project manager from 1996 to 2005 and then a year among the Jean Nouvel Workshops. She was in charge of major sports programs, museums and offices.
They founded the agency Djuric Tardio Architects in 2004. They focus their research on two main areas: frugal and responsible architecture and soft urban and peri-urban densification. Driven by a desire to optimize energy consumption and sustainability of the city, they defend, through their projects, a desire to develop an idea of architecture based on a low carbon footprint and a positive social impact.
Research and development are the common conditions guiding their projects. Their agency emphasizes the use of bioclimatic devices and bio-based materials from short circuits to allow the deployment of a frugal city.
They have therefore put in place an "evolving charter" of principles that they are deploying on the scale of their architectural and urban projects to offer energy-efficient constructions that evolve over time and in use. They design their new constructions of housing and equipment, so that they are modular and reversible, favoring prefabrication; a means of economic optimization and efficiency in the carbon footprint.
Currently, the agency is developing a variety of office rehabilitation projects in industrial zones; housing programs, from the most low-cost to the most prestigious; modular and temporary crèches for urban and rural areas as well as new projects and rehabilitation for Parisian social landlords and the City of Paris.
At the territorial level, Djuric-Tardio is extending its research to the energy autonomy of housing in the critical phases of electricity demand using TESLA-type storage cells. Work that leads architects to imagine a new configuration of smart grids.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS.-
2004. Winner of Europan 7.
2012. Lauriers de la Construction Bois Prize.
2012. Emerging Agency Award by WALLPAPER magazine.
2014. Special mention Futures Possibles pour IMBRICATIONS.
2014. EDF Low Carbon Award for NESTING.
2016. Special innovation award Caisse des Dépôts LAB Architecture for IMBRITACTION EXPOSITIONS.
2013. MAXXI Museum in Rome the STICK project is on display.
2015. MOMA in New York Helsinki Library project on display.
2016. Venice Biennale the IMBRICATION project is presented.
2019. Pisa Biennale.
