圣戈班是一家可以追溯到1665年的镜玻璃制造厂商，多年以来，公司日益壮大，如今，该公司希望将原有一栋建筑改建成为创新中心，建筑师接受了这一委托。项目于2009年启动，2011年秋季完成并开放。建筑长50米，宽22米，改建面积共1550平方米。原有建筑是坡屋顶，传统木质构架。这项改建采取了非常节能以及环保的材料和技术。整个中心的空间具备灵活性和适应性，可容纳未来的不可预见的新活动，具备可持续发展利用性。为不同的人群提供了不同的空间（建筑师，顾问公司，开发商，制造商，机构）。层高三层，一层有一个放映厅，二层有开放式沙龙，办公区和会议室在三楼。工作空间是宁静的白色，建筑的两端采用了从天花漫到地板的深红色。建筑师依然采用了木结构，但是又加入了一些不打破原有结构完整性的新元素。 这个设计提供了一个可以激发创新的空间。会议室的不问天花直通屋顶的采光大玻璃，能够看见外面的天空。

Located on the Saint-Gobain Recherche site at Aubervilliers, Domolab is situated in the nineteenth span of the imposing building, restored in 1999 by architects Odile Decq and Benoit Cornette. Along more than 400 meters,  this building  is a series  of 19 traditional wooden frame sheds with two slopes roofs. Combi- ning the regularity of an Indaten cladding on the south side to the rhythm of a glass partition on the north front, the whole building used to group the majority of the research activities of the Saint-Gobain group in France.Used as a warehouse of materials required for the research activity, the span 19 has undergone  a complete renovation, from a shed non-insulated  to a low energy building (BBC). This was an opportunity to implement the expertise of Saint-Gobain for thermal renovation.

Innovation : Action of introducing something new and still unknown in an established thing. Definition of petit Robert (French dictionnary)

Strategy of the vacuum

Building an innovation center supposed to imagine a sufficiently soft and flexible space to accommodate the presentation of what would be novelty in the future. By definition, innovation is resolutely turned towards the future and such a center must be open and reconfigurable.

The majesty of the volume released from the ship led us to retain much empty space, without built-in function. The central space is available and easily appropriable for temporary events or subsequent developments.

Route in traveling

To accommodate the different actors of the habitat (architects, consultants, developers, manufacturers, institutions) for targeted visits required to create rhythms and course in different environments. Taking advantage  of 11 meters Ridge, the spaces are organized on three levels. A large wall of inspiration, whose form is a homotéthie of the span, articulates on one side the entrance with the airlock and on the other side the 3D projection  room overhanged by a mezzanine where one discovers the entire nave. A lateral passageway can reach the soluthèque, which extends at the second level with a salon nestled in the assemblies of the existing structure. The workspace (office and meeting room) are perched on stilts and open to the sky.