1/ Victor Hugo

Each apartment benefits from an outdoor balcony that can be closed during the colder months. Southern exposure, this buffer space holds unobstructed views, allowing the light required to pour in whilst also minimizing the noise impact from the surrounding cityscape. To reduce building cost and time, the construction system opts for prefabrication, which benefits greatly from the modularity of the housing and the simplicity of the design. An outer passageway provides an additional open space, which, serves as a ‘collective street’. The Victor Hugo Boulevard building takes this stacking principle and implements it in this hollow tooth concept, thus leaving the center as a plot of about 800 square meters of open ground park.

2/ Bac d’Asnières

Occupying a plot of non-standard shape, the project is a figurehead for the new west district. This strategic position and the urban character of the area have directed our research towards a "multiform" architecture that can articulate different urban scales, near and far.

Urban integration drove this project in various ways: the creation of a common platform, slenderness of the buildings, their rough-hewn state figures. Height variations are utilized to increase the sunshine on the façades to foster cross-sectional views of the park and the river while limiting face to face views.

The building envelope is designed as a kinetic device. The design of the facade draws from the orientation, purpose and thermal needs. Thus successively overlapping highly glazed areas, creating windows of the city, and various fixed and mobile wood systems: reflecting the life of the building.

From plan to façade, the project is presented as a superposition of various typologies, various both in the design of the spaces and in the relationship between housing and the outside, as well as other possible uses.

Client: ADOMA / Cost: 12 M € HT / Surface: 6500 m² / Schedule: 2013 / Equipe : Structure: Batiserf Ingénierie, M.E.P.: LBE, Surveyor: Michel Forgue