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by Ron Bernthal
Villa M is a multifunctional hotel in Paris focused on health; an innovative space proposing to create new dynamics and new practices. Designed by the Pasteur Mutualité Group, it brings together a creative team made up of Philippe Starck, artistic director and decorator, the Triptyque agency, for the architecture of the project, and Coloco, a contemporary landscape studio, for its landscape design.
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The mixed-use complex holds a hotel, restaurant, bar, conference area, check-up area, co-working space, and a showroom for start-ups in the world of health to promote mixing, exchanges and mutual aid between the different specialties and the different generations of health professionals.
(image © Michel Denancé)
Composed of a minimal, airy and light structure, Villa M, on Boulevard Pasteur, is the support of a vertical garden. This structure functions as a giant wire mesh echoing the Parisian architecture developed in the early 19th century, and allows the building in Paris’ 15th arrondissement to easily accommodate 86,000 square-feet. The team of landscapers, urban planners, botanists and gardeners of Coloco worked hard to integrate the project into the Parisian landscape.
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The vocation of this atypical place to accompany a “care-better” and a “live better” philosophy is symbolized by an opening on the outside. Its transversal shape echoes the composite place that will be the Villa M. Designed as a large infrastructure and livable landscape, it hosts a hotel, a connected health home, a check-up area, but also student rooms, a restaurant, a bar, a conference area, a co-working space and a showroom for start-ups in the health sector, enough to innovate the brewing, exchanges and mutual aid between different specialties and different generations health professionals.
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It is a truly unique garden building that will develop in a long time. The program, imagined by Thierry Lorente and Amanda Lehmann, of Groupe Pasteur Mutualité, wishes to create in Paris a “villa médicis” and a dynamic healthcare-focused center.
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“The building itself is the support for this vertical garden, which will grow and occupy the entire façade, turning the building into a vertical, medicinal forest and becoming the main architecture,” said Triptyque partner, Guillaume Sibaud.
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(image © Michel Denancé)
The mixed-use complex holds a hotel, restaurant, bar, conference area, check-up area, co-working space, and a showroom for start-ups in the world of health to promote mixing, exchanges and mutual aid between the different specialties and the different generations of health professionals.
24 Boulevard Pasteur, Paris 15e, hotelvillam-paris15.com
