The Paris Market Lab

The Paris Market LabSustainability is easily the most misused and co opted word of our time. Its not a technology like solar panels or a hybrid car; its a context. This project seeks to explore the key components of a sustainable context, and to provide an example of what that context can look like. The field of architecture needs to have a more honest discussion of sustainability, and address not only environmental factors, but also the cultural, social, and economic

ÒSustainabilityÓ is easily the most misused and co-opted word of our time. ItÕs not a technology like solar panels or a hybrid car; itÕs a context. This project seeks to explore the key components of a sustainable context, and to provide an example of what that context can look like.
The field of architecture needs to have a more honest discussion of sustainability, and address not only environmental factors, but also the cultural, social, and economic factors that are all equally necessary for a truly sustainable context
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The project site is strategically located a few steps away from the Saint-Germain Marche, at the heart of Paris, forcing the new culinary school to integrate and dialogue with all the history and the urban planning that surrounds it. It is an adaptive re-use project, aimed at using steelÕs inherent properties to help preserve, re-use, and improve as much of the existing conditions as possible.