The Inverted Building, Atelier Syvil

Looking Beneath Our Feet and Making Transformations

Conceived by Atelier Syvil, architects of the “city system”, and by Sogaris, designer of urban and sustainable logistics solutions for Greater Paris, the inverted building program is very much in line with our “Everything is Transformed” initiative, which illustrates the studio’s commitment to inverted buildings.

On Rue du Grenier Saint-Lazare, in Paris’s 3rd arrondissement, an underground car park has been converted into a last-mile logistics platform, a hub for cargo bikes and other two- or three-wheeler couriers. This shared storage center, the first French district logistics project of its kind, allows 10,000 local companies to increase their available space while reducing their land charges incurred by storage. The project is also part of the initiative and obligation to reduce the use of the car, thus promoting alternatives in logistics transport, but also by encouraging citizens to change their uses.