Leather goods workshop in France

The stated ambition is to radically renew the design of Louis Vuitton’s leather goods workshops. This involves achieving a new standard of 6000 m2. The project is based on a dual proposition: “workshop in the countryside” and “designed from the assembly line”. The production assembly line constitutes the unit of measurement of the workshop, approximately 100 m2. It represents both the human scale of a team of leatherworkers and the basic production unit. The panoramic facade of the workshop receives northern light and opens onto the large landscape. The project transposes into its architectural expression the artisanal know-how of the objects crafted by the brand: materials (poplar, ash, etc.), assembly (metal joints) and textured shaping (stamping and printing on leather, etc.). The frame is made up of a central metal beam and 32 mixed wood-steel lattice beams with a span of 32m. The roof made of CLT panels forming a diaphragm, distributes the forces on the central V-shaped posts. The glass facades are made by 2.5x6m high panels and the opaque parts by wooden frame walls clad in expanded metal.