SHIFT, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Parisian Mixed-Use Complex, French Real Office Development Photos
SHIFT in Issy-les-Moulineaux
20 Oct 2020
SHIFT, Paris
Design: Arte Charpentier Architectes
Location: Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France

photo © L’Autre Image
Ideally located in a thriving neighborhood that is attracting many companies and administrations, SHIFT is conceived as an accelerator of transformation towards more collaborative ways of working and concerned about employee fulfillment.

photo © Boegly Grazia
Arte Charpentier Architectes was a rather special undertaking. The original office building, straddling the boundary between the 15th arrondissement of Paris and the district of Issy-les-Moulineaux, was designed and built by the same practice at the beginning of the 1990s for Unibail.
photo © Boegly Grazia
This heavy rehabilitation allowed the implementation of two major interventions who have brought the building out of self-imposed isolation and allowed it to reconnect with the city, setting up a renewed dialogue with the immediate surroundings :
the removal of the concrete façade panels and their replacement by a glazed envelope articulated by vertical projecting composite fins.
the creation of an internal atrium crossing the building from east to west, connecting the two streets and becomes a link between Paris and Issy-les-Moulineaux.
A major architectural innovation, the vertical fault located in the center of the building is overhung by a large glas...