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R&SIE./ARCHITECTES ROCHE+LAVAUX   45 rue de belleville, 75019 paris
(un)plug La Defense, Paris, 2001  
architect: r&sie… paris (name of the agency at this time: r&sie.d/b:l) > creative team: françois roche, stephanie lavaux, alexandre boulin, olivier legrand, gilles desevedavy > collaborators: b. durandin, e. feher, d. topanni > key dimensions: 10,000 m2 > client: edf > cost: 60m$ > text: commissioned by the research department of the french public electricity company, to develop a building that gains its energy from the sun > scenario: 1) realization of a generic office building. 2) deformation of the reactive façade to respond to renewable energies: - hairiness of the façade for thermal sensors - swelling of the glass skin for the photoelectric cells. 3) disconnection (‘unplug’) of the building from the urban ground and its energy network.