Nestled in the heart of the Bièvre Valley, the HEC campus embodies the living archive of modern tensions between nature and knowledge, heritage and forward-thinking. In a world undergoing transition, the school chooses to revisit this exceptional environment and integrate it into a sustainable, inclusive, and ambitious strategy. PCA-STREAM proposes a project that is both contextual and transformative: restoring coherence to a fragmented domain, reactivating landscape and social continuities, and creating a new embodied centrality : the Campus Heart, to give form to the HEC of the 21st century. A place of learning in and with the landscape. A campus aligned with its time.
Housing
Binnenalster Ensemble
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The historic Berenberg Bank building is about to be reborn. Through a contemporary reinterpretation that enhances its architectural legacy, the project breathes new life into a Hamburg icon, transforming its base into vibrant, open, and multifunctional spaces.
Tour Bretagne
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The new Tour Bretagne, a renovation of the emblematic Nantes landmark, offers an opportunity to transform a symbol of the postwar boom, now obsolete, by adapting it to the challenges of our time. The PCA-STREAM – MAGNUM team enhances its elegance and slenderness by converting office spaces into housing, making the project a forerunner of a new era for the city and the metropolis.
Crédit Agricole Brie Picardie
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As part of the Eurodisney development zone, PCA-STREAM is designing a mixed-use, open-plan tertiary campus, co-designed with its user, Crédit Agricole Brie-Picardie. It embodies the traditional values of this bank, its environmental, social and cultural commitments, but also its commitment to the uses of tomorrow.
Talleyrand
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At the heart of the 7th district of Paris, PCA-STREAM has transformed what was formerly a bland and common office building into an exceptional town house. The existing building has had its interior restructured so as to provide natural light, while the facades now possess a contemporary identity through a geometrisation of its volumes.
Transvaal
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In 2000 PCA-STREAM transformed a former tinplate stamping factory in Belleville, Paris 20e, into a residential loft. Taking advantage of the initial depth of the space, the existing wooden structure has been preserved and the space gutted so as to insert sequences of life around a luminous patio that also provides an interior garden.
Training Citizen Architects to Serve a Community
Designing an inclusive city implies involving their residents in urban projects, but what is the role of architects and urban planners in this process? For Andrew Freear, the head of the Rural Studio program, they both have the ethical responsibility of getting locally involved via concrete projects. Architectural schools must thus take on training citizen architects by engaging them in learning by doing, and thus have them redevelop a deep connection with context and places, acting as neighbors and activists within communities in order to collectively carry out experimental projects that tangibly improve society and the environment.
Collaborating with situations
The two Lebanese artists and filmmakers were awarded the 2017 Marcel Duchamp Award for Unconformities, a project currently on display at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. This artwork, like their approach, is based on a methodology of investigation and excavation and aims to offer another reading of history and the traces of the past.
Design: Reparation
Nicolas Nova was a social anthropologist. Inspired by New Media Studies and design fiction, he contends that the future of design lies in recycling and reparation as well as reinventing forms and functions. Did you know that a used flip-flop could serve as a lighter?
From "Mediance" to Places
The geographer and orientalist Augustin Berque revisits the polysemic dimension of the term “milieu,” and explains the distinction made by mesology—“the area of biology that deals with the relationships between the environments and organisms”—between “environment” and “milieu.” The reality of things differs depending on the environment of each species or culture, the object doesn’t exist in itself but according to its relationship with the subject. In this way, mesology goes much further than the subject/object dualism of modern science. Ontologically “trajective,” the environment is neither objective nor subjective, but firmly between the two theoretical subject/object centers. Berque takes the term “mediance,” meaning the dynamic coupling of the individual and their surroundings, from the Japanese “fūdo,” to which he adds “trajection,” a process that results in the “mediance” of human existence in its concrete surroundings. Taken as a whole, all human environments, distinct from the biosphere through their eco-techno-symbolic dimension, form the ecumene. For architecture, this implies a respect for history and the environment, without mimicking ancient forms, creating from the “mediance” of each place.
An Attempt to Drain Places
Larissa Fassler is a “Neo-Situationist” artist. By exploring places over the course of many hours, she gleans their ephemeral essence, which she then superimposes on the fixed urban master plan. The subjective maps thus generated highlight both urban narratives and history.
Maximizing reuse, minimizing transformation
Maximum is a design studio that maximizes the value of waste; its material, its form and its engineering. Some materials are transformed in a semi-industrial process while others give birth to unique pieces, such as the glass walls of the Centre Pompidou caterpillar.
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stream voices
Eager to share more generously the results of its collaborations and research, PCA-STREAM publishes STREAM VOICES, its online magazine!
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