Immeuble Avenue de France

Located along the SBB tracks at the entrance to Geneva, the building occupies a small, confined plot of land, long considered unsuitable for development. With its integration into the neighbouring fabric, the L-shaped volume blends into the local conditions of the site by adopting the template of the adjacent buildings to create a new unified island. The nine-storey glass prism of offices has two main façades: the first forms a continuous
front along the SBB tracks and the second marks out one of the gateways to the district housing the international organisations along the Avenue de France. Featuring two service centres,
the plan offers a typology based on flexibility and evolution over time. The double skin façade, required to insulate the offices from noise pollution, is presented as a screen recording atmospheric
variations through the interplay of reflection, transparency and absorption.