A naturalistic manifest: this is the definition of Villa M, a mixed-use complex to be inaugurated on September 15th,2021, in Boulevard Pasteur, in the Parisian borough of Montparnasse. Designed by French-Brazilian architecture agency Triptyque Architecture, the project aims to create a new pact between city, nature, and health.
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The building, a dynamic healthcare-focused center, stands out with its living facade whose geometry is formed by metallic structure beams, conceived to house medicinal herbal plants, fruit trees, and medium to large-sized perennial species. Designed as an exoskeleton, the façade has a minimalist, light look, composed of prefabricated pieces as in a building game. ?The edifice itself is the support for this vertical garden, which will grow and occupy the entire façade, turning the building into a vertical, medicinal forest and becoming the main architecture?, explains Triptyque partner, Guillaume Sibaud. © Michel Denancé
In addition to the reintegration of nature into the city through architecture, the living façade contributes to sustainability, since it collaborates with the thermal comfort and, therefore, with the building?s energetic efficiency. ?We have explored all of the available surfaces to potentialize the greenery and avoid energy and carbon waste?, explains Sibaud. Environmental responsibility is also present in the basic and organic material choices, proposing a low-tech architecture.
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