L’Arbre de Vie will be the tallest green tower in eastern Paris and will become an unique, precursory architectural landmark, benefiting the environment of eastern Paris. The base of the project creates a relation of proximity and complicity with the surrounding public space and will be conceived to resonate and interact with the latter. We want to create bonding in the heart of a project where different uses meet and interconnect. As a true meeting place, it will be conceived with a focus on people, who either use it, walk by it and care for it.
The tower will host offices, housing, retail, amphitheaters and classrooms, a sport-health center, as well as a food court. Urban agriculture will be developed in relation with its diversified catering offer, in addition to the existing commercial center. This variety of programs will catalyse social and intergenerational connections, conferring a stimulus for the building to live at any time of day and night.
L’Arbre de Vie will open up both to its social and urban environment, so that nearby or more distant residents can enjoy it. Our approach goes far beyond imagining a building closed in itself, that focuses only on the benefit of its users. Our concept is therefore marked with the seal of otherness for the residents and the inhabitants of Grand Paris Sud Est Avenir. The top terrace of the tower will be accessible to all to enjoy its panoramic restaurant.
Basic programming such as housing, offices or retail require new reflections and new synergies to be found. The project we propose defines new urban, landscape and architectural ideas, as a set of beliefs focused on its direct and indirect users on different scales: that of the user, the site and the territory of Ile-de-France.
