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ECDM Architectes Emmanuel Combarel, Dominique Marrec . photos: © Salem Mostefaoui

All our reflection starts from a tension to be established between asserting a presence and letting the view, the garden, the walkers pass. De-saturation occurs through fragmentation, through small, strongly verticalized volumes with a reduced footprint. The curves and counter-curves organize the plot. These vertical undulations reveal the ground and the sky; the solids are at the service of these framings, of this work on the depth of field. Continue reading ECDM

ECDM . photos: © Salem Mostefaoui

Geometric, quantified, the void is the predominant material of facades. Organized in an accumulation of cavities, the voids multiply the surface of the accommodation by adding external volumes; contained volumes where everyone’s privacy is defined and protected by a constructive framework: half-balcony, half loggia but certainly extension areas for housing that is never large enough. The fundamental and structuring choice of the project is to offer all housing large extension areas, with an architecture that allows the greatest number of housing to be extended by generous semi-outdoor spaces in the form of loggias, multiplied balconies. Continue reading ECDM

ECDM . photos: © Salem Mostefaoui

We designed this hotel as a succession of plans and sequences condensing the long traveling shot that leads the traveler to Paris. Access to the hotel is from a reception on the roof of the city, a place from which one can apprehend the opposite way, to understand Paris, this open territory which unfolds in a limitless continuum, whose the white horizon is punctuated by magnificent emergences. Our project will be a place characterized, surprising, a destination, a landmark, a connivance, a point of view on the capital. Continue reading ECDM

ECDM architectes . photos: © Schnepp • Renou . © Jérémy Bernier – ecdm

The completion of a building in the planning project of Saclay Paris is a unique opportunity to be one of the markers of the future center of excellence established on the plateau. The uniqueness of the site, and it’s present and future characteristics, make it an interesting emerging area.
The landscape was the starting point of a project created with the idea of being surrounded by nature. The lack of construction dominates; the site is large, distended. The use of territory is essential here: to spread out would be to trivialize the landscape. Our first priority is to give value to the abundance of space. Continue reading ecdm