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GMG / Immeuble de logements
GMG / Immeuble de logements
Geneva, Switzerland
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Other Projects by Bonnard Wœffray — Architectes FAS/SIA
GMG / Immeuble de logements
Geneva, Switzerland
In north-west Geneva, just a stone’s throw from Parc des Nations and the UN’s European headquarters, the Terra & Casa Foundation’s housing block—together with the neighbouring student residence and the Médecins Sans Frontières head office—forms the new Cité Internationale du Grand Morillon district. Homes and ground-floor retail are arranged in a slender bar 12 m wide and 80 m long, rising eight storeys above a plinth. The building’s linearity engages with the broad public mall that runs alongside and echoes the simple geometric forms of its neighbours. At its northern end, facing the Route des Morillons, the gable widens to signal the quarter’s gateway and assert its urban presence.
The scheme provides 88 apartments whose layouts offer rooms of generous, equal proportions. Each internal doorway is paired with a sliding panel, enabling varied configurations and connections between spaces so that the interiors can accommodate diverse ways of living. The ground floor hosts retail units accessed via spacious lobbies, which also house bicycle and pushchair stores. A subterranean car park completes the complex; its layout allows the access to be shared with adjacent facilities.
A façade grid articulates the structural bays. Executed in precast-concrete elements, it guarantees durability and low maintenance. Large openings deliver abundant natural light, while aluminium frames subdivide them in step with the interior partitions. The project’s formal, typological and constructional rigour ensures economy in both construction and operation, and its pared-back expression lays bare the building’s structural logic and functional organisation.
The scheme provides 88 apartments whose layouts offer rooms of generous, equal proportions. Each internal doorway is paired with a sliding panel, enabling varied configurations and connections between spaces so that the interiors can accommodate diverse ways of living. The ground floor hosts retail units accessed via spacious lobbies, which also house bicycle and pushchair stores. A subterranean car park completes the complex; its layout allows the access to be shared with adjacent facilities.
A façade grid articulates the structural bays. Executed in precast-concrete elements, it guarantees durability and low maintenance. Large openings deliver abundant natural light, while aluminium frames subdivide them in step with the interior partitions. The project’s formal, typological and constructional rigour ensures economy in both construction and operation, and its pared-back expression lays bare the building’s structural logic and functional organisation.
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