Pons + Huot Office Interior Design By Christian Pottgiesser

Christian Pottgiesser from architecturespossibles designed the combined headquarters for two companies Pons and Huot in Paris, France. The project accommodates the headquarters of two companies in Paris – PONS and HUOT – with totally fifteen executives. Consequently the unit has seven individual rooms for each director and one open-space-office for the remaining eight clerks. In addition there is one (divisible) meeting-room, a common recreational room, a kitchen, rest rooms, and, at the special request of the patron, lush vegetation all over the main space.

Gustave Eiffel has realized that the base for the building construction is a rotten industrial hall which is built in the late 19th century with a steel frame work which is a typical for that period. For the first program from the architect is completely restored the hall. Then a new self-cleaning glass roof is fitted. Into the original state, the whole substance of the building is put back. In fact the project is consist of an insertion of a wooden unit which is in a solid oak for about 1,7 meters high, 22 meters long and 14 meters wide.

The entire program from the architect is embodied. Which is covered by a “telephone”-dome in Plexiglas, each individual workplace is incised into the wooden upper surface. The four lateral surfaces are containing archives, a cloakrooms and the kitchen. Which completely embedded on the body are the meeting room, the recreational room and the restrooms. The remaining space is taken up by the technical transmission system such as the computer, electricity, air condition, heating and water, and also by 18, 3 m3 of the soil, and the bed for eight Ficus Panda Tress.

Source : designboom, pottgiesser.fr