At the foot of the picturesque village of Lens, the parish owns a plot zoned for multi-family housing that can accommodate two apartment blocks. The first of these has been built to offer inter-generational flats to local residents. Classical in outline, the building rises three storeys and an attic beneath a twin-pitch roof whose ridge runs perpendicular to the slope, giving it a profile that harmonises with the historic fabric while speaking a contemporary language.
The exterior reprises the materials and tones already present on the site. Its façades alternate solid parapets—precast, sand-blasted concrete—with horizontal bands that integrate glazing and anodised-bronze aluminium mullions. The ground floor contains a “Domino” sheltered-housing unit for seniors: a communal apartment with four bedrooms, each equipped with an en-suite bathroom and kitchenette, grouped around a shared living-area.
A typical upper floor holds three apartments, while the attic accommodates two units that exploit the generous volume beneath the pitched roof. The two-bedroom flats benefit from three orientations and open onto corner loggias that articulate the living area. Exposed concrete defines the communal zones—car park and stairwell—where the raw floor, walls and ceiling contrast with the painted joinery of the apartment doors and the stair balustrade, whose inner face is a coral red. Warm tones are used in the bathrooms, while the apartments themselves are finished in restrained whites and greys over oak parquet.