Passy Plaza, Paris France
Designed as KMD Architects with Anthony Bechu architects, Paris 1991
John Ellis Project Designer with Jeff Horowitz, Ken Moy, Juan Diego Perez Vargas
In 1991 KMD was commissioned to transform the lower floors of a former department store on the Rue Passy in Paris’ 16th Arrondisement into a 120,000 sq ft multitenant, high-end retail arcade. Passy Plaza serves as a retail anchor for a mixed-use development that includes condominiums, a terraced garden and parking garage.
The plan is organized along a two-level retail arcade that connects the entrances from both ends and pivots around two top-lit rotundas. Daylight penetrates the arcade along its length from skylights within the terraced garden above.
Basement level with the truck delivery bay and access to parking below.
Ground Floor Plan showing the path of the arcade with its two rotundas and escalators down to the lower level.
Residential courtyard level with the skylights to the arcade below.
Section through one of the rotundas showing sight lines and daylight penetration.
Section through the arcade showing sightlines to the lower level.
Upper level arcade with skylights.
One of the two rotundas with its skylight.
Residential courtyard with skylights to the retail arcade below.