Tour Étoile Pour Groupama, Paris-la-Défense

Because for us, the era of nar­cis­sis­tic, tote­mic tower-objects is over.
The design of tomorrow’s towers must serve the well-being of their users, but also that of local resi­dents and the city itself. The Étoile Tower pro­ject, deve­lo­ped by Loci Anima, invents a new way of living and wor­king in high-rise buil­dings.

It starts from the belief that we can live and work at height without resi­gning our­selves to the usual draw­backs: small floor plates wrap­ped around a cen­tral core, dark and nar­row cir­cu­la­tion spaces, blind stair­cases and ele­va­tors, lack of fresh air and connec­tion to the out­side, the anxiety often asso­cia­ted with height — inclu­ding fee­lings of confi­ne­ment, claus­tro­pho­bia, and ver­tigo.

Loci Anima ima­gines a unique mor­pho­logy that recon­ciles light and space with the constraints of core pla­ce­ment and high-rise buil­ding regu­la­tions: this is the Étoile pro­ject.