Cynologist units

Located in an industrial area of Seine-et-Marne, the departmental canine unit occupies a triangular plot wedged between a railway embankment, a high-voltage line, and a lightly trafficked road. This constrained context guided the overall layout and the building’s form, designed as a direct response to the site’s geometry.

The building adopts a triangular plan that clearly separates the three functional entities: administrative offices, canine facilities, and technical spaces, each occupying one side of the volume. These wings converge around a central service courtyard, serving as a manoeuvring and distribution area that organises the daily operation of the facility. Materials were deliberately reduced to the essentials to assert a simple and durable architecture: façades of black-stained self-compacting concrete, galvanized steel joinery, paved exterior surfaces, and landscaped grass areas. Inside, exposed concrete ceilings, plastered brick partitions, and stoneware floors create a robust, unadorned atmosphere, in keeping with the technical nature of the facility.