Brutalist Concrete Screen, Paris — Honeycomb Brise-Soleil Facade

5 October 2017 · Paris

A brutalist brise-soleil in Paris, shot from street level looking up. The concrete screen fills the frame: row after row of hourglass apertures, each cell casting its own shadow against warm béton brut. The grid is both structure and ornament — load-bearing geometry that reads as pattern at this scale. Flat overcast sky above strips out distraction and lets the relief do its work.