Shared Company Cafeteria, La Pompignane Building Development, French Commercial Architecture Images
Shared Company Cafeteria in Montpellier
12 Jan 2022
Design: Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés
Location: La Pompignane, Montpellier, France

photo © Stefan Tuchila
Shared Company Cafeteria
The former IBM office complex is located in Pompignane, part of the inner suburbs of Montpellier. The site, purchased in 2004 and 2007 by the Covivio Company, is home to some ten office buildings scattered around this 28-hectare Mediterranean landscape.

photos © Sergio Grazia
The former Foncière des Régions Company has redeveloped this vast property in a sensitive blending of nature and architecture, aiming to attract new technology companies and foster Montpellier?s own ?Silicone Valley?.
photos © Sergio Grazia
BGA was commissioned to build a new office campus for Orange and to redesign, what is now the Shared Company Cafeteria on the former inter-company cafeteria site built-in 1983 by the architect and designer Marc Held. His architecture, greatly inspired by Gallo-Roman villas, is organized around two interior patios, the main one being surrounded by a portico of wooden columns and enclosed by walls made of alternating layers of stone blocks and cobblestones.

photo © Vincent Boutin
BGA?s intervention involved two main parts: first of all, the rehabilitation of the beautiful heritage on the site, overhanging frameworks, Roman-style tile roofs, composite peripheral w...