Project Type Program Milieu Location Client Year
La collectionneuse Restauration Apartment 20th C Heritage Paris 16e Privé 2016
Croisée Renovation Apartment 20th C Heritage Paris 16e Privé 2016
Banc public Installation Retail & hospitality Department stores Paris 3e Tom Greyhound 2016
Trois objets Installation Retail & hospitality Department stores Paris 9e System 2017
Audi de mixage I Renovation Auditorium, Post-production studio Cinema, Acoustic Paris 10e Third 2017
Audi de mixage III Renovation Auditorium, Post-production studio Cinema, Acoustic Paris 3e Saya 2019
Audi de mixage II Renovation Auditorium, Post-production studio Cinema, Acoustic Geneva Masé 2018
Hortus Teaching - Academic Architecture school of Versailles - 2017
Les cours urbaines Teaching - Academic Architecture school of Paris-Belleville - 2014
Maison Bernard Restoration House 20th C Heritage Maisons-Laffitte (78) Privé 2022
Villa Riberolle Rehabilitation Auditorium, Post-production studios, Offices 19th C industrial Heritage, Cinema and Sound Paris 20e PolySon Post Production 2024
Studiolo Renovation Apartment Urban Paris 9e Le Crime 2021
Maison sur jardin Renovation, Extension House Peri-urban Cachan (94) Privé 2021
Ferme franc-comtoise Rehabilitation House Agricultural Heritage Mesnois (39) Privé 2021
Longère Rehabilitation Collective housing Agricultural Heritage Grand-Auverné (44) Une Famille Un Toit 44 2023
Grange Rehabilitation House Agricultural Heritage Belforêt-en-Perche (61) Privé 2023
Micro/Macro Teaching Workshop Academic Architecture school La Cambre-Horta, Brussels - 2022
Château de Bussy-Rabutin Restoration, Heritage assessment Cultural, Museum, Visitor center 17th C Heritage Bussy-le-Grand (21) Centre des Monuments Nationaux 2021
Ecole Paul Bert Heritage led rehabilitation and energy upgrade School complex 20th C Heritage, UNESCO World Heritage Site Le Havre Le Havre (76) Ville du Havre 2024
Appartement 24 N.C. Renovation Apartment 20th C Heritage, Façades and Common areas listed as a Historic Monument (MH) Paris 16e Privé 2024
Objets Trouvés Exhibition - Museum Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris
- 2023
Centre de tri Rodier Reconversion Collective housing, Coworking, Public building,Post office, Urban logistics 20th C Heritage Paris 9e Poste Immo 2025
Ancien hôpital La Rochefoucauld Rehabilitation, New build Collective housing, Artists’ studios, Workshops of the École Spéciale d’Architecture, Art gallery, University hospital group (GHU), Café, Coworking space 18th C Heritage, Listed as a Historic Monument (MH) in 1928 Paris XIV, France AP-HP 2025
Monge Rehabilitation Collective housing Haussmannian Heritage, Social housing Paris 5e Paris Habitat 2025
Ancienne poste Reconversion Collective housing Rural Heritage, Former post office Treffieux (44) Une Famille Un Toit 44 2024
Philolaos Restoration, Feasibility assessment Cultural, Atelier, Artist residency, House 20th C Heritage Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (78) Privé 2023
Ecole La Rose Rehabilitation, Extension School complex 20th C Heritage, School heritage Marseille (13) SPLA-IN des Ecoles de Marseille 2025
Georges Perec, Human Algorithm Teaching Workshop Academic Paris-Est School of Architecture (ENSAVT) - 2024
Marbeau Restoration Apartment 20th C Heritage, Art déco Paris 16e Private 2025
Villa Arpin Heritage assessment House 20th C Heritage, Coastal urban context Palavas-les-Flots (34) Privé 2023
Appartement 24 N.C. II Renovation Apartment 20th C Heritage, Façades and common areas listed as a Historic Monument (MH) Paris 16e Privé 2025
Ecole de la Marine Reconversion Multi-family housing, Student housing, Offices, Workspaces 20th C Heritage, School heritage Nantes (44) Loire Océan Métropole Aménagement, Nantes Métropole 2025
Maison Le Manchec Restoration, Feasibility assessment House 20th C Heritage Chennevières-sur-Marne (94) Architecture de Collection 2026
Jussieu Research thesis - Academic Paris ENSA Paris-La Villette / HESAM Université 2022
Audi de mixage V Renovation Auditorium, Post-production studio Cinema, Acoustic Paris 15e Private 2022
Audi de mixage IV Renovation Auditorium, Post-production studio Cinema, Sound Geneva Masé 2023
Hôtel Renovation, Construction Luxury hotel, Spa & wellness Site classified as a Historic Monument (MH) Loir-et-Cher (41) Privé 2023
Appartement de faubourg Renovation Apartment Inner suburb Paris 11e Private 2018
Paulin Restoration, Feasibility assessment Cultural, Archives, Exhibition space, House 20th C Heritage Saint-Roman-de-Codières (30) Private 2023
Porte voix Renovation Amphitheatre Cultural, Sound Versailles, (78) ENSA Versailles 2025
Une maison en forêt Restoration, Extension House 19th C Heritage Rueil-Malmaison, (92) Private 2021
Vue sur mer New build House Coastal urban context Saint-Cast Le Guildo, (22) Privé 2023
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Jussieu vu du ciel en 1990

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Plan de 1er étage du gril imaginé par Albert en 1963 ©Archives de la ville de Paris

Type
Research thesis
Milieu
Academic
Location
Paris
Client
ENSA Paris-La Villette / HESAM Université
Year
2022
Team
Supervised by Catherine Maumi et Antonio Brucculeri
Description

This competition study brings together three major themes that are too rarely examined in relation to one another: architectural competitions, university architecture, and the conservation of 20th-century buildings.

In 1992, Jack Lang—then Minister of National Education and Culture—launched an international competition for the Jussieu campus. The aim was twofold: first, to complete the “grille,” a building conceived by architect Édouard Albert in 1962 whose construction had been prematurely interrupted; and second, to create two major university libraries to address the insufficiency of existing facilities.
Ten architectural teams were invited to compete: five French practices (du Besset & Lyon, Beaudouin, Hondelatte, Jean Nouvel, Architecture Studio) and five international teams (Toyo Ito, OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, Cruz y Ortiz, Coop Himmelb(l)au). After hearings before an expert jury, Minister Jack Lang announced his decision to appoint two winners: Jean Nouvel for the overall site strategy, and Rem Koolhaas for the new building. A few months later, following the legislative elections of April 1993, the library project was abandoned, and it would take several years for debates on the campus’s future to resume.
Rem Koolhaas’s proposal for the libraries—among the most radical projects in his oeuvre—has likely influenced numerous architectural projects since its publication. Yet the Jussieu library competition launched in 1992 is not as widely known as the major international competitions of the previous decade. Organised in haste, only months before the Socialist Party’s electoral defeat, this complex programme did not leave the intended mark. Instead, it belongs to the longer history of a site repeatedly shaped by interrupted projects: the slab blocks initiated by Urbain Cassan in 1952; Édouard Albert’s “grille,” halted in 1972; and, since then, numerous inconclusive studies for completing an abandoned campus. By taking as its atypical subject the completion of a building constructed only thirty years earlier, the competition contributes to the making of a palimpsest in which built reality coexists with the memory of what was imagined.

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1955, vue aérienne des Halles au vins © Roger Henrard

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Jussieu en 1992 ©Archives nationales

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Jussieu en 1992 ©Archives nationales

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10 projets pour la bibliothèque de Jussieu

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Projet de OMA / Rem Koolhaas pour la bibliothèque ©OMA

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Projet de OMA / Rem Koolhaas pour la bibliothèque ©OMA

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Projet de OMA / Rem Koolhaas pour la bibliothèque ©OMA

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Projet de OMA / Rem Koolhaas pour la bibliothèque ©OMA

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