The factory of Five Senses, Paris, France

The Usine des Cinq Sens is a sen­sory labo­ra­tory. By crea­ting a synergy of all five senses, it allows each of us to feel more in har­mony with our­selves, with others and with the world. The Usine des Cinq Sens is a space that opens out to the neigh­bou­rhood and to the Seine. It’s a space that people walk through, a connec­ting space, but also cir­cum­scri­bed space that exists in itself. The archi­tec­tu­ral choice of a per­istyle, ins­pi­red by the Roman ​“domus”, gives it its iden­tity. It demar­cates the space on the ground and in terms of height without clo­sing it off, without fen­cing it in. The cour­tyard-gar­den, which resembles an ​“implu­vium” encou­rages the recy­cling of water, dia­logue and inter­ac­tion. Planted areas abound and the buil­dings adja­cent to the halls have been demo­li­shed. The two halls and their indus­trial archi­tec­ture have been magni­fied, both out­side and within, where the space is constantly evol­ving. Finally, a Pavilion of the Senses turns the pro­cess of dra­wing water from the Seine into a moving tableau. It evokes the ​“glo­riettes” that were so popu­lar in the 18th cen­tury, the per­fect place to dream away a sunny after­noon.