Archives of Isère

D3 architects and CR&ON Architects

The departmental archives project of the Isère (ADI), is composed of 3 layers: a base, a vegetal layer, and the storage volume. These volumes become the raw and mineral expression of the territory of Isère. The building is crossed by an inner street, and thus has two entrances.

Archives of Isère – Shooting in the photographic chamber – 2019

Four store blocks embed vertical glazed breaks providing natural light without direct sunlight. These imposing masses answer to the density of the program which they welcome and that of the loads which they resume. They are dressed in a gray ocher concrete skin, marked with a horizontal texture that evokes two dimensions of the project’s imagination: limestone and paper.

L’attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est axonometrie-archives-isere.gif. — The volumetry of the Archives expresses this organization and the structural logic that builds it.

Program: Construction of the Departmental Archives of Isère
Owner: Department of Isère
Architects: CR & ON Architects (agent), D3 Architects
Area: 15,000 m² SP
Amount of works: 24.5 M € HT