©  Régis Golay

(Régis Golay)

 ©  Régis Golay

(Régis Golay)

“法兰西大道”行政大楼坐落在一个有几个限制因素的地方。它建在紧邻cff(国家)铁路线的一个工地上，它的北端被法国大道所限制，毗邻一座已经存在的建筑物。该地点的地形也规定了不同的条件，即：最低处的铁轨、通往地下停车场的通道、法兰西大道越过铁路的水平以及现有相邻建筑物的总体水平。值得注意的是，在建筑之前，该地点一直被认为“不适合”发展。

The “Avenue de France” administrative building is sat on a site which imposes several constraints. It was built on a site bordering the CFF (national) railway lines, limited on its northern end by the Avenue de France and adjacent to a pre-existing building. The site’s topography also imposes varying conditions namely: the railway tracks to be found at the lowest point, the level of the access to the underground parking, the level of the Avenue de France over-passing the railway and the general level of the existing adjacent buildings. It is worth noting that before construction of the building the site had long been considered as ‘unsuitable’ for development.

考虑到以上所述，项目布局需要有特定的空间和视觉策略，并以特定的方法进行体积分析和立面设计。网站的复杂性所引起的问题以极简主义的形式得到了优雅的解决。在与现有建筑充分整合的过程中，“L”形体积通过采用相邻建筑的规模来响应语境，从而在同一时间内创造出一个单一的融合结构和一个内部庭院。

With the above in mind, the project layout necessitated specific spatial and visual strategies, reinforced by a particular approach to both volumetric analysis and facade designs. The issues raised by the site’s complexity were elegantly resolved in a minimalist form. In fully integrating itself with the existing buildings, the “L”-shaped volume responds to the contextual aspects by adopting the scale of the adjacent building, thus creating a single fused structure and an internal courtyard at the same time.

其结果是一个玻璃棱镜，它将自己作为铁路月台的玻璃背景，并作为通往日内瓦国际组织“季度”的主要门户的一侧的体现，在今后几年里，和平之家在法国大道沿线形成了这一门户的另一边。

The result is a glass prism, which presents itself as a glazed backdrop to the railway platforms, and as the embodiment of one side of the main gateway to the International Organizations ‘quarter’ in Geneva by echoing House of Peace forming the other side of this gateway along the Avenue de France the next few years.