To build on a vacant site in Paris requires infill in harmony with the existing urban fabric. Rue Orfila is a typical neighbourhood street, the former rue des Hautes-Gâtines in the Commune de Charonne. We consider that each place has its history and it is our duty to prolong it on this site.
Urban architects, our project is an episode in a series that, at the same time, refers to the existing built volume, to uses and to the materials of its context. The project reinterprets the porch of the Parisian courtyard, the courtyard principle (daylight and natural ventilation) that reveals a planted block centre in contrast to the hard street elevation.
Fabien Brissaud, founding architect of mobile architectural office