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164 students dwelling
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Argenteuil, France
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164 students dwelling
Argenteuil, France
164 social housing for students: housings
specifically designed for residents who have same age and education
level. The building fronts display monolithic figures : toward the
north, featuring a common structure, there is a standard module : 320 x
275 mm repeated in every apartment. This shows a perfect and symetric
distribution on the facade area. Getting an overall look displaying a
sense of harmony is one of the key constitutive points of this housing
project. Rhythmic changes, sequences strictly repeated or accelerated :
there are several ways to create variations and break down monotony.
From one angle of the building to the next, the facade alternates with
checker display, except for walls and floors. All appartments have half
of their external facade exposed to natural day light thanks to a large
door that can be shut with an internal shutter. The shutters are
printed copies of the facade design, gold red colored, and pixel style.
Glancing at it from the street, you will get a perception of rather
complex design. Residents can make use of the shutters as magnetic
boards on which one can write, highlight paste text or images. You get
to the residence through a prolonged opening by horizontal roads, which
cut the building in two length ways. This figures a separation line
between North and South, transition between the wing offering a view on
Careme Street existing buildings and the western side with the hall and
garden facing the bricks of the “ZAC” commercial center. On the west
façade, located above the hall modules are decomposed in a rather
hybrid geometry. The building is splitting itself to find a sense of
urbanity in a landscape encompassing a R+4 brick wall, access to a
parking lot, Parisian style housings, power transformer from the French
Electricity Board covered with antique pediment and a nice private
Paris style house preserved under the ZAC program management. On the
south side, housing are extended with balconies of 8 to 15 m², designed
to allow a garden table. The façade of the building displays a balanced
pattern of full and empty spaces, gray and neutral elements outlined by
colourful separation lines. This particular design exhibits tinted
clouds harmonized with the coloured shutters of the housings. Located
at ground level is the Tetris garden: it is made of concrete paving
slabs decorated with geometric figures of thick carpet moss (planted in
November). Artistic expression is a style or syntax similar to street
side facade, evoking an artificial landscape designed to look more
natural. The hall is the intersection between street, access ways and
the garden. On the right, first the mailboxes looking like a colourful
maze, and then a bar with a garden extension. The laundry will be a
nice living place, where one can meet people and chat. The plan is to
paint it orange and to get a sofa and a coffee machine (soon to come).
The access ways are horizontal and functional and designed to alternate
main doors, and doors providing access to lift / technical shaft. The
use of space in public area/corridors is reduced to minimum
requirements. Paradoxically framework consistency and facade strictness
composition allows flexible living space combinations, with more than
113 different types out of 164 housings nested in the residence hall.
Apartment area, simplex or duplex type is contained between 17 and 40
m². The building façade is mainly glass windows equiped with sliding
shutters : this results in a well balanced appearance of full and empty
space.
specifically designed for residents who have same age and education
level. The building fronts display monolithic figures : toward the
north, featuring a common structure, there is a standard module : 320 x
275 mm repeated in every apartment. This shows a perfect and symetric
distribution on the facade area. Getting an overall look displaying a
sense of harmony is one of the key constitutive points of this housing
project. Rhythmic changes, sequences strictly repeated or accelerated :
there are several ways to create variations and break down monotony.
From one angle of the building to the next, the facade alternates with
checker display, except for walls and floors. All appartments have half
of their external facade exposed to natural day light thanks to a large
door that can be shut with an internal shutter. The shutters are
printed copies of the facade design, gold red colored, and pixel style.
Glancing at it from the street, you will get a perception of rather
complex design. Residents can make use of the shutters as magnetic
boards on which one can write, highlight paste text or images. You get
to the residence through a prolonged opening by horizontal roads, which
cut the building in two length ways. This figures a separation line
between North and South, transition between the wing offering a view on
Careme Street existing buildings and the western side with the hall and
garden facing the bricks of the “ZAC” commercial center. On the west
façade, located above the hall modules are decomposed in a rather
hybrid geometry. The building is splitting itself to find a sense of
urbanity in a landscape encompassing a R+4 brick wall, access to a
parking lot, Parisian style housings, power transformer from the French
Electricity Board covered with antique pediment and a nice private
Paris style house preserved under the ZAC program management. On the
south side, housing are extended with balconies of 8 to 15 m², designed
to allow a garden table. The façade of the building displays a balanced
pattern of full and empty spaces, gray and neutral elements outlined by
colourful separation lines. This particular design exhibits tinted
clouds harmonized with the coloured shutters of the housings. Located
at ground level is the Tetris garden: it is made of concrete paving
slabs decorated with geometric figures of thick carpet moss (planted in
November). Artistic expression is a style or syntax similar to street
side facade, evoking an artificial landscape designed to look more
natural. The hall is the intersection between street, access ways and
the garden. On the right, first the mailboxes looking like a colourful
maze, and then a bar with a garden extension. The laundry will be a
nice living place, where one can meet people and chat. The plan is to
paint it orange and to get a sofa and a coffee machine (soon to come).
The access ways are horizontal and functional and designed to alternate
main doors, and doors providing access to lift / technical shaft. The
use of space in public area/corridors is reduced to minimum
requirements. Paradoxically framework consistency and facade strictness
composition allows flexible living space combinations, with more than
113 different types out of 164 housings nested in the residence hall.
Apartment area, simplex or duplex type is contained between 17 and 40
m². The building façade is mainly glass windows equiped with sliding
shutters : this results in a well balanced appearance of full and empty
space.
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