Along future urban park that will connect the Saint Ambroise Church to the Boulevard Richard Lenoir, this is a rare opportunity to build a new building in the heart of the 11th district.
The layout proposed for this operation is divided into two buildings: a first feature volume holds the bottom of the impasse while a second clings to the last buildings next to the plot.
The limited size envelope to 4 levels high and the position of both buildings guide the narrow lane toward the sky. In addition, the wide rift between the two buildings provides an opening to the future park, the plant is reinforced by the presence of the nursery garden and surrounding vegetation and the area planted to the floor housing building.
The buildings are coated with a white lacquered perforated metal skin, which establishes a uniform building combining the two programs and makes a sober writing in the narrow lane. Only the front of the nursery garden is treated remarkably as a "cold greenhouse", the volume is detached from the rest, forming a base, both protector and open towards the sky and the vegetation of the park. Coated with a silkscreened glass skin, this space offers an outdoor playground, generously open on the future park while generating a filter with the more intimate activities of the crib. The attic on the 4th level is inhabited with "promontory" volumes that cut the sky of the garden, and naturally separates the different terraces of housing units.
The housing units are divided into two separate entities: one on the roof of the nursery (2nd+3rd floors) and the other in an autonomous building of 4 levels. They are completely independent of the equipment and are accessible directly from the impasse by two staircases. The narrowness of the field and the configuration in plots we privileged, have enabled us to provide typologies and remarkable benefits: crossing housing, large terraces, views on the park for all housing and large aluminum-wood windows.