A suspended modular filing and storage system of variable dimensions.

The units can be moved around for greater accessibility while also serving to divide the space. Compactus consists of a steel frame on which mobile boxes are mounted, potentially doubling in volume by sliding over each other along a bearing runner.

VIA, the association created by CODIFA (Committee for the Development of French Furniture Industries) with the support of the French Ministry of Trade and Industry, enabled Jean Nouvel to produce his first pieces of furniture. Jean Nouvel has developed six prototypes in aluminium that reveal the basis of his approach to the objects.