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Testimonio Tower

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A inhabited tree.

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Project

Testimonio Tower

Client

Department of urban planning and mobility prospective

Program

HQE tower (business center, public and private housing, rescue center, international school, shops, nursery).

Location

Principality of monaco, monaco

Project

2010

Surface area

55,000 m²

Architects

Bechu & Associés in association whit A-C Perrot & F. Richard and F. Notari

PERFORMANCES

HQE certified

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This mixed-use tower project claims to be a vertical urban landscape with signal value.

At the eastern entrance of the principality, this mixed-use tower project claims to be a vertical urban landscape with signal value. Its steep terrain should symbolically make it a link between the upper and lower districts of the city but also between water, earth, rock, plant life and man. Soaring towards the sky, the architecture is rooted like an "inhabited tree" in the rock to better draw its energy from it, unless it is one of those banyan trees, with inhabited roots, emerging from the abandoned temples of angkor. The program includes an hqe tower (business center, public and private housing, rescue center, international school, shops, nursery).

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A fascinating carbon protection grid partially shields them from the sun, akin to the lush nature rising at the base of the skyscraper.

The first four office levels opened along avenue de la princesse-grace. A school rises for another four levels to reach the same height as boulevard d'italie. The different halls of the skyscraper are also connected: that of the nursery on the 1st floor, that of the 48 state-owned apartments. A fascinating carbon and etfe* protection grid partially shields them from the sun, akin to the lush nature rising at the base of the skyscraper.
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This perfectly earthquake-resistant design integrates into the landscape through a powerful architectural gesture.

This perfectly earthquake-resistant design, this half-fossilized inhabited tree structure or stalagmitic habitat partially colonized by plants and trees, integrates into the landscape through a powerful architectural gesture that projects the principality into modernity while emphasizing the site itself. The eco-responsibility it advocates fully integrates the notion of programmatic and social diversity.
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