City Library-Strasbourg & Fire Station Living-Nanterre, France

FIRE STATIONNanterre, France

"The rescue center inherently refers to the notion of efficiency. Efficiency in emergency treatments is an absolute necessity which requires a very rigorous space layout. Efficiency in space management results in extreme spatial simplicity and essential solidity of the built environment."

CITY LIBRARY - renovation+extensionStrasbourg, France

“Here, everything obeys the logic of the waterway: linearity of embankments, extent of the pier, alignment of trees. Even the buildings, set in profile from one end to the other, are in perfect continuity parallel to the embankments, with their silos, like prows, vertically punctuating the extremities.”