On the 4^th of July, ULI France members visited the Stream Building, a hybrid building that links the inner and outer suburbs at the gateway to Paris. Winner of the Réinventer Paris 1 competition, the Stream Building is the result of 15 years of research by PCA-STREAM.

The morning began at the Stream Café, with a presentation of the project, in the company of Hugues Charpentier, Deputy Mayor of the 17th “arrondissement”, Geoffroy Boulard, by : Patrick Bosque – Hines France, Deputy Managing Director, Philippe Chiambaretta – PCA Stream, Architect, Olivier Estève – Covivio, Managing Director.

The speakers were able to tell us the story of the delivery of this project, which is opposite Renzo Piano’s TGI, and which was designed as a metabolic building offering a catchment area that adapts to the geographical zone, a sober design with wooden frames, and a plant column that separates the building into 2, all while applying innovative technical and programming solutions: mixed use, adaptability and reversibility of uses, to make it a prototype of resilient architecture.

This hybrid site is part of a revitalised urban landscape and is also open to the residents of the Clichy-Batignolles district. It incorporates principles of sustainability and environmental quality through its mixed wood-concrete structure, limiting its carbon footprint. The genesis of the Stream Building is even somewhat avant-garde, since it was imagined at a time when co-working and teleworking were not yet at the heart of our daily lives!

First stop: the OVH office space in full installation! Then there’s the microbrewery in the basement, producing ultra-local beer from hops grown on the façades of the building to provide passive thermal protection, making the Stream Building an example of circularity. The question of life is at the heart of the project.

We then headed for the roof of the building, where we found the vegetable garden that supplies part of the restaurant’s requirements, as well as the photovoltaic panels also located on the roof.

We finished the morning with a tour of the Zoku Paris hotel, thanks to Didier Quinot – Zoku, General Manager, taking in the restaurant, the various work areas within the restaurant, the terrace and the loft: the flagship space of this hotel with its original lifestyle concept, where the aim is to make you feel at home.

Many thanks to PCA Stream, Covivio and Hines France for organising this visit, welcoming us and sharing their thoughts and experiences with us.