The project consists of 79 apartments, a multipurpose hall and 75 parking spots. The objective was to redesign the green space behind the project. The project exceeded expectations in regards to the client’s environmental request by making the buildings passive.
The buildings’ setting was designed with the concern of the landscape’s permeability:
- To not close off the green space view from the buildings and create a visual and physical connection from the buildings and the street to the park. Hence, each apartment has a view of the green space.
- To preserve the urbanism’s open shape that characterizes the area around the project where buildings alternate with large green spaces.
The project includes two kinds of private gardens:
- South-facing, open to the public square
- South-west, open to the public park
Each apartment has a double orientation and profits from an optimal natural lighting, an outdoor space (garden or terrace) and views on the green space.
The space between the buildings consists of private gardens but also sharing spaces for the inhabitants and public passages to the park composed of vegetable gardens, selected trees and a playground.
In front of the building along the street, additional rooms provide a foreground to the buildings and are designed for storage. These exterior rooms are made with wood gantries and gabions full of stones and bark. Their materials are chosen to best integrate with the landscape. The sheds surround the gardens and the parking porches.
The parking spots are dispersed on the field, semi-buried and covered with a slatted vegetated floor composed of plane trees.
The buildings are designed as a part of the landscape, dug like a stair, and trimmed with light sun visor and terraces. Different sort of spaces make the transition between indoor and outdoor.
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