The three towers of the Pont de Sèvres lose their massive aspect and adopt a softer and more kinetic appearance. They become clad in a woven skin of curved lines—pearly interlacing—that capture the light and create an amber effect on the façade while screening the interior volumes from the sun.
The aim of this aesthetical metamorphosis is also primarily to improve the towers’ use and climatic comfort: solar protection, natural night-time ventilation, exterior platforms, maintenance gangways and accessible terraces are all part of the system that covers all floors via these woven strips on the façades.
A three-storey base, which is also curved, ensures contact with the street and restores the urban continuity. It houses a double-height hall that runs on the same level as the Esplanade, serves the conference space on the upper ground level and leads down wide staircases to the central garden on the lower ground level, around which the entrances to each tower are located.
The lushly planted garden is visible from the entrance and protected by an almost transparent mesh. It confers a human scale on the central district between the towers and magnifies this exceptional vista.
The complex lights up at night… at which point perception of this new aesthetic of curved lines and corbelled construction shifts: the Pont de Sèvres complex asserts its presence and becomes the figurehead of the neighbourhood.