GRAND PARC SILO PARKING | MORE Architecture

In the city of Bordeaux, Grand Parc is a large housing project from the 1960', currently in requalification. Among the objectives is the reduction of aerial parking, in aid of qualitative pedestrian lanes and public spaces. The construction of a silo parking allows to reach these objectives while answering an increasing parking demand. It's a complex site, which offers the possibility to rethink the parking as an urban object, fully involve in the aesthetic of the city.

Steel was not only chosen for its wide aesthetic palette, but also for its capacity to support long gaps structure while preserving entwined sections. For all metal elements, the project bets on a prefabrication process.

The graphic envelope of the project is based on a main element which multiplies to cover the entire building: a white lacquered tubular steel section, either structural, technical or aesthetic. The widely ventilated facades of the silo are punctuated by a loadbearing posts frame that supports half level composite floors. This primary frame is disrupted by thinner sections posts, arranged randomly. On the roof, these elements turns upside down in gantries to create a shadehouse on the last floor.

Grand Parc Silo Parking is a kinetic object, a singular landscape, similar to an abstraction of the forest. Its envelope composes between shadow and light, between angle and reverse shot, in a purified writing around what is the essence of a building: its structure and the abstraction of the envelope.