FARMAN – Paris

75-76 rue Henry Farman
75015 Paris

France

The only building in the Seine Ouest Business District, entirely located in Paris.

The FARMAN and the High Environmental Quality (HQE) approach

Finding high performance and easy-to-maintain construction systems is sure to be a source of future savings.
Among the HQE® "targets" of the lame Nord programme, several were chosen:

The building’s relationship with its immediate environment:
  • Optimised orientation of spaces depending on the external constraints (bad weather, noise pollution
 
Energy management:
  • Double skin southern façade ensuring:
    • Control of the premises’ thermal comfort
    • Limiting noise pollution coming from the Boulevard Périphérique
  • Use of high performance energy solutions:
    • The cold girder that regulates the office temperature
    • Production of hot domestic water by solar energy
 
Water management:
  • Creation of leafy terraces which capture water and thereby favour water management by limiting its discharge into the waste water system
  • Installation of hydro-economic solutions:
    • Recovery of rain water for watering the green spaces
Maintenance and durability of environmental performances:
  • Building Technical Management (GTB) will make it possible to simplify maintenance operations:
    • Heating and cooling systems
    • Ventilation systems
    • Lighting systems
    • Water management systems
Sound dampening:
  • In order to guarantee top- quality attention and optimum intelligibility for future users of the premises thereby improving the living and working conditions within the premises.
 
The maintenance of an acoustic atmosphere will be managed by:
  • The presence of a highly effective insulating double skin to the north and the south that acts as a barrier against the noise coming from the Parisian Boulevard Périphérique.
 
Visual comfort:
Maintain a satisfactory lighting atmosphere:
  • Centralised management of the shutter systems ensuring the best compromise between lighting and thermal comfort.
 
Olfactory Comfort:
  • Phytoremediation:
    • The air extracted from the kitchens is filtered and discharged on the terraces away from the new air intake. The filtering of this discharged air can be conducted by using a plant complex, thereby combining landscaping quality and control of unpleasant odours.

Caractéristiques

Surface area : 
  • 25,200 sq. m.
  • Ground floor devoted to services (conference hall, meeting rooms, staff restaurant, cafeteria)
  • Executive Club
  • 600-sq. m. bicycle park
  • 419 parking spaces on 6 basement levels
Nature of operation : 

High-quality services on six superstructure levels and six infrastructure levels:

  • Open floor plate of approximately 4,000 m²
  • Head room of 2.65 m under false ceiling (open floor plate)
  • Raised floor with plenum space of 10 cm in open floor plate
  • Air conditioning using chilled beams, 2 pipe / 2 wire system
  • Sound dampening: glazing 38 dB D,n,t,a
  • Air conditioning controlled by BMS
  • Lifts: 1 triplex, 1 quadruplex. Breaking load at ground floor for car park lifts
  • 3 goods lifts
  • Direct access to pedestrian walkway alongside T2 extension
  • Vegetation-covered roofs
Capacity :  1,520 employees
Delivery :  1st quarter of 2010
Buyer :  Marketing in progress
User :  Marketing in progress
Project type :  "Off-plan" sale prior to future completion
Architecte :  Jean-Michel Wilmotte