O’ZONE

The real estate complex accommodates 120 hotel rooms, offices and shops, on a surface area of 11,200 m² and comprises two apartment blocks, 9 and 3 stories high. Vertically, the building is structured into three sections: base, main body and penthouse, in consonance with the design of the Parc Marianne district and the new surrounding areas. At Place Ernest Granier, the building displays a frontage punctuated with stores and featuring a vertical fault line, a visual cut-through that opens the project to the city.  The dual orientation towards the city and the park is amplified by the height of the buildings, which decreases toward the penthouse by successive terraces.

The building consists of a shopping mall at city level, a main façade in architectural concrete in line with the neighboring masses accommodating offices, and a recessed façade of the hotel, which supports the large structures. Combining severity and softness, large vertical blades of white concrete lie side by side with dark boxes suspended between earth and sky. These panoramic boxes change the perception of scale of the façades and stand out like large vertical screens. The project is located in a highly urbanized area in which ecology plays a major part. Most of the terrace areas are covered with vegetation, while plant boxes arrangements dissimulate the technical facilities.