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Casimir Perrier Street, Lyon, France
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Amplia, positive energy housing units
Casimir Perrier Street, Lyon, France
Lyon
Confluence is a heart-shaped peninsula at the confluence of the Rhône and the
Saône rivers just ten minutes’ walk outside the city centre. Despite its
beautiful location, this dockland zone had become decrepit and uninviting –
even dangerous - after working hours. In 1996, an urban renewal project on an
unprecedented scale was approved.
A call
to tender was made to design an eco-friendly residential building for the area.
The commission was awarded to French architects Florence Lipsky and Pascal
Rollet in 2007 for their creative finesse in interpreting the project and for
surpassing the scope of the brief.
The
result is Amplia, a five story residential building with 66 apartments, ranging
from studio to four-bedroom. The break-up of the apartments into a variety of
sizes and costing (51 are private, 15 state-subsidized) was a deliberate decision by the architects and
the developers to avoid creating a niche residential zone. The exterior pathways oblige users to
relearn what it means to share certains spaces – a kind of social mixing and
sense of community that still meet with resistance in France.
Amplia
is an intelligent building, designed to adapt to seasonal changes with minimal
energy output, creating its own microclimate. Lipsky + Rollet studied the
orientation of prevailing winds and sunlight onto the façade to exploit the
natural ventilation and heating potential to the maximum.
Amplia’s
appearance is purposely discrete, merging effortlessly with its natural
surroundings due to the outer wall coating of raw earth plaster, which provides a natural and weather resistant
insulation. Key distinguishing features are its glass loggias and the undulating
roof canopy.
The
roof’s solar panels are a vital component in achieving the zero-energy-waste
objectives of the project - to produce more energy than the building consumes.
Photovoltaic panels harness the sun’s heat to provide hot water for domestic
use, while traditional solar panels cool the terraces in summer months without the
need of air-conditioning, massively reducing residents’ energy bills. Rainwater
is stored on the roof for plant watering.
Each
living space has spectacular through-views from the floor-to-ceiling windows,
bringing the residents into constant contact with their natural surroundings. The
loggias act as balconies in summer, solariums in winter.
Living
in Amplia, says a new resident, feels like being on a permanent holiday.
The AMPLIA
Residence received two Silver Pyramids in 2012; the Innovation Award and the
Sustainable Development Prize - EDF blue.
Confluence is a heart-shaped peninsula at the confluence of the Rhône and the
Saône rivers just ten minutes’ walk outside the city centre. Despite its
beautiful location, this dockland zone had become decrepit and uninviting –
even dangerous - after working hours. In 1996, an urban renewal project on an
unprecedented scale was approved.
A call
to tender was made to design an eco-friendly residential building for the area.
The commission was awarded to French architects Florence Lipsky and Pascal
Rollet in 2007 for their creative finesse in interpreting the project and for
surpassing the scope of the brief.
The
result is Amplia, a five story residential building with 66 apartments, ranging
from studio to four-bedroom. The break-up of the apartments into a variety of
sizes and costing (51 are private, 15 state-subsidized) was a deliberate decision by the architects and
the developers to avoid creating a niche residential zone. The exterior pathways oblige users to
relearn what it means to share certains spaces – a kind of social mixing and
sense of community that still meet with resistance in France.
Amplia
is an intelligent building, designed to adapt to seasonal changes with minimal
energy output, creating its own microclimate. Lipsky + Rollet studied the
orientation of prevailing winds and sunlight onto the façade to exploit the
natural ventilation and heating potential to the maximum.
Amplia’s
appearance is purposely discrete, merging effortlessly with its natural
surroundings due to the outer wall coating of raw earth plaster, which provides a natural and weather resistant
insulation. Key distinguishing features are its glass loggias and the undulating
roof canopy.
The
roof’s solar panels are a vital component in achieving the zero-energy-waste
objectives of the project - to produce more energy than the building consumes.
Photovoltaic panels harness the sun’s heat to provide hot water for domestic
use, while traditional solar panels cool the terraces in summer months without the
need of air-conditioning, massively reducing residents’ energy bills. Rainwater
is stored on the roof for plant watering.
Each
living space has spectacular through-views from the floor-to-ceiling windows,
bringing the residents into constant contact with their natural surroundings. The
loggias act as balconies in summer, solariums in winter.
Living
in Amplia, says a new resident, feels like being on a permanent holiday.
The AMPLIA
Residence received two Silver Pyramids in 2012; the Innovation Award and the
Sustainable Development Prize - EDF blue.
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