Archetech Issue 43 2019 | Page 72

ALAIN SARFATI BRINGS LIGHT SAREA The former building of the SAGEP (Société Anonyme de Gestion des Eaux de Paris) is no longer in use. In its place, at 7-9 rue Schoelcher in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, we discover a brand new apartment building, which, like the old one, bears the so personal mark of its architect, Alain Sarfati. Because already in 1992, it was Alain Sarfati who was called upon by SAGEP to transform an old office building into an emblem for the company. Bought from the City of Paris by RIVP to create housing, the building was therefore entrusted to the same architect to carry out this new mission. The recommendation of the City of Paris was to preserve the facade designed by Alain Sarfati in 1992. It reigns, therefore, different and yet in harmony, in the middle of the other buildings of this increasingly white street with all its bright facades. Today, it has simply equipped itself with thermal insulation that will give the homes the expected comfort.