A New Successful Project for Glas Expert: L’Usine Saint Lazare Paris
Following the inauguration of L’Usine Opera Paris, which proved to be a real success, the owners decided to open another sports club, L’Usine Saint Lazare, in Paris’s 8th district – a new, more spacious and dazzling club, set in a location with stunning architecture, marked by large windows opening towards the Parisian scenery.
Glas Expert was asked to produce and install all glass and mirror elements. Glas Expert’s attention to detail, appropriate technical solutions, and the complete involvement of the installation team in the arrangement of L’Usine Opera Paris led the owners to choose us again as suppliers for all glass and mirror elements.
Glas Expert fully installed the 120 lockers in the changing rooms, with colored MDF and CNC cut glass doors, ceramic enameled differently for the women/men areas. Equipped with bonded hinges, the glass doors are designed to maximize space and give a modern touch to the entire locker room. The interior of the lockers is designed for customer comfort, with hanger bars, ventilation, and shelves. Along the entire locker assembly, LED strips with a light diffusion system are installed, creating a pleasant and relaxing atmosphere.
The shower area is primarily made of glass, with 21 EVOCUBICLES, wall cladding with EVOKERAM R glass in two RAL shades, and EVOSHOWER, Glas Expert’s water-saving shower panels. Glas Expert’s electronic system for EVOSHOWER allows for personalized water dispersion time settings between 20 seconds and one minute, after which it spontaneously stops. The installed nozzles deliver water at a flow rate of 10 l/minute, with options available for 6 or 15 l/minute. In the women’s bathrooms, the EVOSHOWER panels are equipped with handheld showers, details that show the owners’ commitment to the comfort of the sports hall’s female clients. Also, in the bathrooms, LED mirrors and magnify mirror areas are installed, with glass shelves having cutouts for hair dryers, a product developed by Glas Expert.IIn the gym areas, arched mirrors with hidden LEDs create an intimate atmosphere, and the diffused light is amplified by the mirrored doors of the furniture present in the fitness areas. The final solution for choosing the LEDs involved many calculations for light diffusion, with different types of light, cold/warm, and dispersed light intensity.
In the treadmill area, there is an assembly made of MDF and EVOPRINT glass. With almost 100 doors with bonded hinges and push systems for silent opening, the small lockers are used for storing personal items of those coming to the gym.
Highly publicized, the opening event of L’Usine Saint Lazare Paris was marked by numerous articles in the press, with praises from prestigious tabloids and magazines: Vogue, Elle, Le Figaro, and many others.