HYPERION - THE HIGHEST LIVING TREE

The project, situated in the center of the city block, proposes a soothed dialogue with the urban grid and many challenges

The project, situated in the center of the city block, proposes a soothed dialogue with the urban grid and many challenges: • Contributing to the development of a low carbon territory • Developing constructive solutions leading to a reduction of the worksite disturbances • Helping in the structuration of the building timber sector with a multiplication and a higher visibility of the timber realizations on the Euratlantique site • Designing an emblematic project that will lighten the timber sector: a 57m high wooded building.

The square, conceived to articulate the urban functions and the flux at the ground floor, sets the tower and its roots. The tower emerges and rises up to the 18th floor, surrounded, as a corolla, by its 9 and 8 story buildings. At the tower foot articulates and meshes up a complex of lower housing, the form created permits to multiply the surface of the facades, and open those to the best exposure, searching for the best views and letting the sun infiltrate itself into the heart of the site, lightning the garden

The tower is accessible from the square. The central distribution block, stairs and elevator, and the 3 first levels are built in concrete. This rigid column is then completed by a timber structure, constituted by posts and beams. The flooring and the partitions are in Cross Laminated Timber. The post beam system, suppressing the structural panels offers adaptability for the accommodations, in terms of typologies and distribution, following the evolution of the familial cell. It is a superposition of houses. Here, the design proposes to cover with wood the protected under face of the balconies (for some of them 5m cantilevered). Visible from the ground floor, these horizontal plans will contrast with the brighter color of the steel cladding and will affirm the details of this façade, emphasizing movement and stacking.