Frederic Flanquart has completed the interior project Le Loft Des Innocents.

+ Project description by Frederic Flanquart

It all started on a September night  in 2009, when we all settled up there, on the roof, or at least what remained of it. The building had been through a major fire a year before. The scene was set.

Le Loft Des Innocents, image courtesy Frederic Flanquart | Photo by Ludo Martin & Pascal Otlinghaus

The outlook of this area turned really fast into a crazy challenge: design and achieve a shell-free space with – as reference marks- only half-burned out staircases -leading to the lower level-, a huge scaffolding structure used as a roof, and a 360° view over Paris.

The client wanted something new, ambitious and creative, in order to turn over a new leaf after 10 years spent at the loft.

Le Loft Des Innocents, image courtesy Frederic Flanquart | Photo by Ludo Martin & Pascal Otlinghaus

Both concerned about the quality of implementation and about the layout and fitting details, he enabled us to make a true fulfilling experience out of this project.

Not a single inch was missed out, the goal was to conceive an open and welcoming space with as much stowage as possible, while allowing a comfortable circulation.

Le Loft Des Innocents, image courtesy Frederic Flanquart | Photo by Ludo Martin & Pascal Otlinghaus

We came up pretty quickly with the idea of a quiet and relaxing place during the day switching to a genuine place of mystery and pleasure at night.

The dream came true 18 months later, on December 31st, and the leaf naturally turned over. A space where the filtered, aimed, tamed light designs the volume.

Straight or slanting, geometrically random at times, the work of lines highlights every detail. The loft, a filled with emotions project, combining complexity, simplicity and lightness.

Le Loft Des Innocents, image courtesy Frederic Flanquart | Photo by Ludo Martin & Pascal Otlinghaus

+ Project credits /data

Project: LE LOFT DES INNOCENTS
Year: 2009 / 2011
Area: 80m2
Typology: Interior | Loft
Interior architect: Frederic Flanquart | http://www.frederic-flanquart.com/
Photography: LUDO MARTIN & PASCAL OTLINGHAUS

+ All images courtesy Frederic Flanquart

German landscape architect Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten has designed the Zoological Garden Wuppertal. The Zoo's character as a kind of landscape park is being emphasized and developed. Through improvement of the existing vegetation's shaping, former view corridors are once again accentuated.

Zoological Garden Wuppertal, image courtesy Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten

Zoological Garden Wuppertal, image courtesy Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten

The depression, which used to be cut off by the existing railroad embankment, is being generously extended and runs beneath the future "Sambabrücke" (Samba Bridge). The "Sambastrasse" (Samba Street) becomes an integral part of the new landscape. Fences and barriers are arranged in an unobtrusive manner, in order to emphasize the remarkable impression of the predator enclosure, even while just passing by.

Zoological Garden Wuppertal, image courtesy Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten

Zoological Garden Wuppertal, image courtesy Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten

The "Zooturm" (Zoo Tower) is immediately visible after entering the Zoo from the "Wiesental" and is the zoo's centre of orientation and an attraction. The tiger vivarium is designed as a "Felswald" (rock forest). The lion enclosure is giving the impression of a wide and open savanna. Baobab and peek rock offer various perspectives on the animals.

Zoological Garden Wuppertal, image courtesy Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten

Zoological Garden Wuppertal - Site plan, drawing courtesy Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten

+ Project credits / data

Project: Zoological Garden Wuppertal
Location: Wuppertal, Germany
Area: 5,1 ha
Budget: 12,2 Mio EUR
Design competition: 2003, 1st Prize
Completion: 2007
Typology: Landscape | Zoo

Client: Wuppertal Facility Management, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany
Design: Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten | http://www.rehwaldt.de/
In collaboration with:
Rohdecan architekten, Dresden
Heinle, Wischer und Partner Architekten, Dresden
Tragwerksplanung – Kling Consult
Haustechnik – IB Döhler

Photographer: Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten

+ About Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten

In 1993 our office was founded by Dresden landscape architect Till Rehwaldt.

Main sectors of our scope of work are public open space planning, recreation and leisure facilities and urban planning. We are working on miscellaneous thematically and regionally diverse projects.

Spaces Ahead
Modern Landscape Architecture is dealing with a site and its functional demands in a special way. The outdated concept of "style" has been replaced by focussing on the spatial and chronological context of a conceptual urban open space design. For the newly designed space a local identity is being created through the composition of urban open space and landscape as well as its tangible chronological context. Regarding this every space is a space for people. The public open space is organized in a multifunctional manner and offers possibilities for various uses. In this way the modern city becomes a human city. Neither representation nor decoration are dominating the future of urban open space but its quality as an everyday place of sojourn.

+ All images and drawings courtesy Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten

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