Type : Redesign of the reception, exhibition, ideation and coworking spaces of Battle Lab Terre
Service : Space design
Client : French Ministry of Armed Forces
Year : 2024
Location : Versailles-Satory, France
Area : 4000 s.m.
Phase : Completed
Service : Space design
Client : French Ministry of Armed Forces
Year : 2024
Location : Versailles-Satory, France
Area : 4000 s.m.
Phase : Completed
The entire challenge of this project was to repurpose spaces that had previously been underutilized.
Within the French Army, the Army Battle Lab aims to identify, select, and accelerate civilian innovations for rapid deployment on the battlefield, thereby enabling greater responsiveness and military superiority.
This requires an open space that fosters mutual understanding between worlds that rarely interact: the Army, industry, startups, universities, foreign delegations, and more.
From the entrance hall, designed as a reception and exhibition area that immediately illustrates the space's purpose, the layout unfolds gradually, offering dedicated areas for different stages of a project: an open ideation space, a semi-enclosed space for coworking among mixed project teams, and a reconfigurable amphitheater for presentations to an audience or teamwork. All the spaces are easily reconfigurable to quickly adapt to different formats and thus accommodate the venue's gradual increase in use over several years.
The choice of shapes, colors, and materials has given a new identity to a space that was previously too impersonal: a design evoking the topography of the land, a palette of warm colors counterbalanced by shades of green reminiscent of the military, and large, illuminated display surfaces that provide clarity and immersion.
CMF
CMF + assembly test
Study model of the shelving unit
Axonometric projection of the shelving unit
