SMILE

Our project is for the interiors of Orange Worldwide Headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux Paris.

The aim was to welcome everyone through the soft thread of natural textures.

Welcoming everyone back to the office after years of COVID quarantine. Through the soft thread of natural textures and three key projects to welcome the employee.

SMILE

DATE  2021

LOCATION ORANGE HQ PARIS

STATUS COMPLETED

CLIENT ORANGE

TEAM

SMILE

Architect and General Contractor
Mamou-Mani ltd.
Arthur Mamou-Mani, Bilal Mian, Carmen Hu, Theophile Péju, Fun Yuen, Krishna Bhat, Holly Hawkins, Arik Oslerne, Nina Pestel, Youen Perhirin, Alex Onufriev, Chioma Ekwo, James Cheung, Andros Antoniades, Hafsa Syed

Structural Engineers
Format Engineering

Fabrication Smile
The White Wall ltd.
Andrew Humber, Ashley Elliot, Robin Baker-Gibbs and team

Installation for Smile
Backface Studio
Julien Borrel, Tatiana Kaltenbacher and team

Lighting Engineering and installation
Street Communication
Yannick Yamanga, Moemen Salama and team

Smile at the Orange worldwide H.Q. 150m long parametric origami emerging from the entrance walls and opening them up to a gentle display of glowing, diffused and changing lights.

The sinuous yet mineral geometry is inspired by lava flows cracking open to reveal their inner warmth. The folds on the 4000 laser cut modules gave structural strength to the paper thin powder-coated zintec sheets.

The warm glow of molten lava opening up through a flowing origami river.  This is what inspired our Smile at the Orange worldwide H.Q.