AZURE’s Human/Nature Conference Connects the Dots Between Climate Adaptation and Community Engagement
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Sustainable Workspaces is a co-working office project crafted with natural materials and existing infrastructure designed by U.K. firm Material Works Architecture. Co-founder Dickon Hayward is speaking on a panel on the future of interiors at Human/Nature 2025.
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
A new skyline for Ivry-sur-Seine and the banks of the River Seine. The slenderness of the towers, the modulation of heights and the permeability between volumes provide enhanced views, a multiplicity of orientations, and a rich diversity of housing typologies.
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Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
Narrative façades: window jambs follow a colour code reflecting the interior functions, while the colours of the loggias highlight the different parts of the tower.
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Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
With a footprint of 13.5 x 16.5 metres, the social housing tower is the tallest and most slender of the five buildings.
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Kamel Khalfi
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The façades convey the richness and diversity of the interior typologies.
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Nicolas Trouillard
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
Each tower is structured in three distinct parts, creating three vertical readings to support its integration into three different contexts: the street, the city, and the sky.
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Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The façades follow a “narrative” logic, reflecting interior functions while integrating into the landscape and urban context.
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Kamel Khalfi
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The main facade treatments — raw concrete and red paint — echo the architectural history of Ivry, particularly its emblematic concrete and brick buildings.
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Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
A densely programmed ground floor. The town villas and the commercial spaces face the two newly created pedestrian alleys.
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Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The common spaces and their turquoise common terraces, are located on the 7th floor.
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The common spaces and their turquoise terraces articulate the scale of the towers and create a horizontal reading of the volumes.
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Nicolas Grosmond
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START offers twelve distinct common terraces distributed across several levels.
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Vladimir Partalo
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The light-blue loggias mark the meeting point with the sky.
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Vladimir Partalo
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
View from a Plug balcony in Tower 2 towards Tower 5, with the River Seine on the left.
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Vladimir Partalo
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
Inside a Plug (closable balcony) – view towards the River Seine.
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Vladimir Partalo
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The 10 Adaptability Principles by STAR.
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The 8 Quality Principles by STAR.
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START – Adaptability principle I: Large divisible dwelling (≥ 3 bedrooms).
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START – Adaptability principle II: Super-adaptable dwelling (two bedrooms).
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
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START interior views: apartments with double (88 %) and triple orientation (26 %), modular living rooms, private terraces, and spatial richness — qualities derived from STAR’s Housing Principles.
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Nicolas Grosmond, Vladimir Partalo
START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
Examples of floor plans of the START buildings.
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START – Diagrams: Common Spaces, Common Terraces, Programme, Organisation of the Towers.
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START – Location plan and site plan, 7th floor.
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
START – Render-collages.
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START-Ivry: Form Follows Life
STAR strategies + architecture
The “ideal” section by STAR generates the five buildings of the START-Ivry project.
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2026 Call for Proposals
International Garden Festival
In the foreground: Patrick Bérubé, "Back / Ground", 2025. To the right: ONOMIAU, "Les huit collines", 2022-2025.
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Jean-Christophe Lemay
2026 Call for Proposals
International Garden Festival
Michael Hyttel Thorø, "Scars of Conflict", 2025.
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Jean-Christophe Lemay
2026 Call for Proposals
International Garden Festival
Hermine Demaël + Stephen Zimmerer, "Peek-a-Boo" (detail), 2025.
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Martin Bond
CEBRA Joins Lemay to Expand Shared International Ambitions
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Théâtre de Verdure, Lemay
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Adrien Williams
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