Canaux’s Circular Shade House / WAO

Architects:WAO

Area:175m²

Year:2019

Photographs:Aurelien Chen

Manufacturers:AutoDesk,Actlab/Bellastock,La Réserve des Arts,Le Bon Coin,Mada,McNeel,Re-store (especially Remake),Réavie,Valdelia

Design Team:Minh Man Nguyen, Clément Duroselle, Zoé Moynot, Louis Vignier

Clients:Les Canaux

Engineering:RBS, Eric Pillier

Structural Design:Super Cube: Arnaud Delente, Remi Lapostole, Jim Rhoné, R-Use: Aymeric Meunier, WAO

Mandatory Company:Super Cube

Frame And Roof:Remake: Thibaut Chedeville, Carla Austry, Force Pure: Arthur Nourissier, Quentin Dhorme, Pierre Bouvier, Henri François

Waves Shades:Pourquoi pas: Juliette Lemaire-Asselin, Renald Prevost, R-Use: Mathieu Paradas, Aymeric Meunier, Felix Baratin

Vegetable Boxes:Vergers Urbains: Sebastien Goelzer, Jérôme, Renaut, EMA architecture: Marc de Fouquet, Les p’tits clous: Remi Levêque, Sarah, Melissa and Asmae

Logistics:Karim Jeridi, Romain Brejon, Pierre de Filipi

Furniture And Experiments:SAS Minimum: Marius Hamelot, Jim Pasquet, Thomas

City:Paris

Country:France

The project commissioned by Les Canaux needed to shade the organization’s activities from the sun during the summer, with the ambition of using almost exclusively reused or reclaimed materials and designing, sourcing and building the structure in just two months. Re-Store tackled this challenge by channeling various areas of expertise among its members: design by WAO Architecture (coordination), R-Use, Studio Pourquoi Pas, EMA architecture… fabrication by Super Cube (agent), ReMake, Force Pure… Thus, this project was designed, sourced and realized by a collective made up of multiple players. The collective was able to realize this shadehouse thanks to a space at L’Orfevrerie in Saint Denis, which it used to store materials, experiment and produce in collaboration. This third-space resulted from a partnership among three parties: Quartus real estate developer, which hosted the collective; REI Habitat/REMAKE, which installed its carpentry workshop with machines and artisanal know-how; and WoMa, which managed the space while contributing its community and digital skills. The project represents a prowess in reclaiming materials, where approximately 8.4 tons of wood (90% of wood used) were reclaimed and reused.

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Address:6 Quai de la Seine 19e, 75019 Paris, France