Facing the town hall of Pantin, along the Ourcq canal, the building is a signal of the urban quality of the city center, requiring a strong identity and an architecture open to its environment. The project is designed as a homogeneous whole, remarkable for its materiality. A gray-taupe brick envelope characterizes the urban facades of…
The location of the project offers a new opening towards the Chevreuse valley and the inclination of the building creates perspectives from the street towards the Yvette. Faced with the constraint of the slope of the land, the project adopts a principle of breaking down the volumes into successive horizontal strata: A mineral base: inspired…
This project is the implementation of an urban strategy based on continuity with the existing built environment. The program is contained within two buildings: the first facing the street, with ground floor + 4 floors, containing seventeen apartments; the second, at the back of the lot, contains an additional eight. The first building opens to…
The INFINITY project is the construction of 95 new collective units and 6 houses, situated in Toulouse (Occitanie region, France). The Infinity housing complex sits in a remarkable landscaped location, composed notably of protected woodlands encircling the plot. The project articulates four three-storey apartment blocks and two one-storey grouped villa blocks. The housing complex has…
The Cour Saint Cyp project is the construction of 31 new collective units, situated on the Garonne River’s left bank, in the heart of central Toulouse (Occitanie region, France). The building forms a simple volume situated along rue Joseph Vié, in the historic quarter of St-Cyprien. The project has taken into consideration the urban continuity…
Associated Architect : Scalène architectes Situated in the heart of the ZAC Niel development in Toulouse, France, the collective housing project creates 212 homes with ground floor commercial spaces. The site, between the river and the hills, has been occupied since Neanderthal times, bringing a tangible richness to the place. It is also a meeting…
Generalities The structure of the accommodation of Chartres is composed of 80 small flats and located within the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of the Eure-et-Loir department. It provides full service to students either on trainings or attending apprenticeships. The intent For the purpose of this project, the CCI is committed to support and…
THE ART OF SYMMETRY Baumschlager Eberle Architekten were commissioned to build a small residential block comprising six apartments in the Swiss village of Engelburg, close to St. Gallen. What makes the building stand out is the marriage between its architectural form and its response to the challenge of providing high-quality living space. Essentially a rectangular…
Presentation of the Monticole project, by the architects Nicolas Masson (LAND) and Perrine Bernard (BAG ARCHITECTS). Le Monticole is the name of a mixed project consisting of building on the same site: 36 social housing units, a media library, medical office spaces, a restaurant and a car park. The project owner is the SA d’HLM…
Continuing our study of the material sectors of the city, this project was an opportunity to develop an experiment about circular economy on the scale of housing. Thanks to a participatory process, the consulted inhabitants revealed new needs that were then integrated to the architectural project, for example with the creation of a cellarloggia for…
The project’s objective is the creation of a housing building in a new eco-neighbourhood of Bègles (Nouvelle Aquitaine region, France). The project is located on Rue Denis Mallet in the commune of Bègles. It forms a part of the new eco-neighbourhood Terre Sud, located in the south-west of Bègles, near the neighbouring commune of Villenave…
The project’s objective is to create 41 new social housing units (29 studios and 12 two-room apartments) in a four-story building, with associated parking.. The Residence Ariane is located in the city of Quint-Fonsegrives, in the south-east part of the Toulouse urban agglomeration (Occitanie region, France). The site sits at the city periphery, with views…
Client : Bouygues Immobilier The project consists of the construction of a multifamily residential building on parcel 1.3 of the newly developed “La Cartoucherie” eco-district in Toulouse, France. “L’Empreinte” is a multifamily residence with a strong material character, defined by the light beige bricks that clad its externally insulated façade. Brick is a durable material that is…
Associate architect : Jean-François Sirvain Architecte In the southwest of Toulouse, “Les Carrés de Bellefontaine” consists of a mixed-use program: collective social housing, a professional training center, a restaurant and private office spaces. The project is composed of 5 apartment blocks 4 stories high and implemented according to the historic north/south Mirail masterplan drawn by the…
The urban development zone (ZAC) Claude Bernard is situated in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, between the boulevard Macdonald in the south and the highway in the north. The operation of this building for residential use (by all ages) adheres to the logic of a stacking of trays. Business space and the entrance to the…
Our objective was to build high-quality collective housing. Each housing unit incorporates within it particular qualities of life, embodied by the balconies, the terraces, the patios, the large height of the spaces, the private gardens, the views, the multiple orientations… Our building seeks to transform its urban and construction constraints into veritable assets. Opening onto…
Two apartments (T3), with closed parkings:One, for Mr. and one for Madame, both retired.Constructive process based on lost formwork providing insulation (Phonique and Thermal) indoor and outdoor.BBc and passive houses with green roofs. By @rt-CAD Visit @rt-CAD website
I – ARCHITECTURAL PART I.1. ” OPEN AIR “ As two volumes carved from a single rock, the project highlights the consistently defined buildings based on environmental characteristics of sunshine and urban study of the site. Across the island, two types of facades are united by the same materiality: one flat facades plain concrete, recalling…
The project is a reinterpretation of a housing called «courée». This is a typical form of courtyard workers housing, often built in the industrial districts of the North of France during the nineteenth century. The program aims to develop a modern approach of this theme. It focuses on a specific contemporary issue which is to…
The program, packed and complex, offers a dual programming in the same site, including a childcare centre with its staff housing and 13 students housing units. The project must integrate different qualities: openness and privacy, daytime operation for the childcare centre, evening and night for the housing, friendliness and safety… The nursery is set…
Located in the heart of the new eco-district of Nantes Train Station, the project is the result of the conceptual work of the Agency, he’s taking the measure of a site to support the idea that the density can be a sustainable model for the city. The project is composed by three volumes consistently defined…
Located in the heart of the Marine ecodistrict in Colombes, this social housing project has a very high quality image and finish, while remaining within a very tight budget.The principle underlying the project was to respond to each situation with a generous outdoor space. Like metal plates that might have slid over each other to let in more light, the building possesses a…
The buildings are located in Clichy-sous-Bois, a Parisian suburban area, and make part of the overall urban renovation masterplan of Clichy-Montfermeil.The site presents great contrasts, tall council blocks built in the 60s on one side and the Bondy’s forest on the other. The project site being precisely on the limit between these two, the forest…
The program is composed of 2 apartment blocks of 36 flats and 7 blocks of Multi-Family Dwellings with 26 flats. Each typology correspond to different ways of living: the first one looks like “classic” and fixed, while the second one is atypical and evolutionary. The aim is to answer with a maximum of possibilities to…