The school is located along the Boulevard Raspail, insert between two strong entities of Paris. On the one hand, an important artery of the city and on the other hand, the Montparnasse cemetery. LAB'Z is plugged on the hidden facade of L’école Speciale d’Architecture as a secret research lab, installed in the 14th arondissement. LAB'Z program completes L’école Speciale as It offers Master and Doctorate program with major in «thinking, criticing and operating on urban tissue.



Divided into several clusters, it is positioned as a pre-basis of new thinking on urbanization and architecture in Paris. The shape of the flags results of three imperatives: a minimum impact on the floor, a light and airy structure  and an anchorage on the existing building. By etablishing three cantelivers, the general structure of the building is stabilized.

 

The coridor, crossing point, is metaphorically an interface placed between the old buildings and halls of creation, allowing free plan within the volumes. The gazebo dedicated entirely to the creation with workshops, provides a framed view on the city, and exposes an unusual landscape, a sample of the city and its various densities. The laboratory, fully equiped with flexible walls, can be organized as open spaces for sharing ideas or as individual cells for small group-work.- The pavillon houses an education center, administrative offices and also an auditorium and clasrooms.



Finally, Steel, Laboratory, Belvedere, all these settings take shape in the creation of a new roof for the cemetery, a new element into the urban network of Paris.