I won the competition (in which none other than Frank Gehry participated) for one of the follies composées that Bernard Tschumi had planned for his park. Bernard intended to establish a dialogue between his architecture –red, cubic, and metallic– and that of the invited architect. The competition rules clarified that the aim was integration through contrast, forbidding the matching of heights or reddish colors. I proposed a serene, orthogonal intervention, made of a single material and monochromatic. Externally, only albino Macael marble and grayish zinc were visible. Three stone volumes were connected by two intermediate greenhouses, which allowed passage through to link with the western gardens. The geometry of the monumental doors and the floor plan consciously paid homage to Boullée and Ledoux.  

The highly detailed briefing included the placement of three restaurants, even specifying the type of cuisine. Like all marketing predictions, this one proved completely wrong: no restaurateur showed interest in the location, the building remained unused for several years, was transformed (without our intervention) into exhibition halls, and is now entirely disfigured.