As general planner and total contractor, Implenia is realizing the following properties for a Crédit Suisse fund: Giessenhof (perimeter block building, 166 apartments) Giessenplatz with energy center Giessenturm (84 meters, basement and 26 upper floors, 332 apartments and 60 nursing rooms for Tertianum) Am Gi essenplatz (38 apartments) New laboratory building (the […]

Above and below: the same attention. The esplanade is almost 250 meters long and about 20 meters wide, crossing the (future) district from side to side. Logically placed in the lower part of the site, the two covered ramps set the tone: in a well-framed treatment, a flexible and undulating formal language is inscribed. A permanent play of taut curves and pleasant roundings […]

Access to property for families. The residence is part of a block of four apartment buildings and is set back from and parallel to the Avenue des Grandes-Communes. This position in the east-west axis, respecting the 1960s urbanization type of this Onex neighborhood, also marks the limit between the residential fabric and the allotment gardens of La Caroline, which overlook […]

The building was erected in an excavation pit made of Berlin walls and is partially in groundwater, which was lowered locally during the construction period. The reinforced concrete structure rests on a common floor slab, while the floor slabs are supported by a classic load-bearing structure with intermediate columns made of reinforced concrete. The roof consists of a […]

The original purpose of the building was to facilitate mixed activities, which required a point-holder structure that makes it easier for users to organise the space as they wish. The building consists of three structures, a head building with four ground floors facing south towards the Avenue des Grandes-Communes and two parallel wings with three ground floors facing […]