This 82-unit, rue Saint
Germain in Romainville is an opportunity to offer the neighborhood and its
inhabitants, a beautiful set of buildings on a human scale. It
is also the opportunity to work in harmony and sew two very different scales,
on the one hand that of the pavilion along the street belonging to the city of
Les Lilas and on the other hand, the apartment buildings of the housing
residence Marcel Cachin from 4 stories to 8 stories.This is a fundamental
renewal of the neighborhood and the city should reconcile with itself, its
scale, its customs, its people. It is important to treat this new visibility for
the harmony of the place, its durability, its integration site. Our
architectural approach has focused and structured around a comprehensive
concept of simplicity and fluidity, providing both a real quality for users,
elegance and simplicity for easy maintenance of the building
for owner. To answer this duality we propose an urban and
architectural diversity through three types of housing inducing varied volumetrics
in the city. Along the Rue Saint Germain a first thickness of 2 stories
households northlight allows both to identify small gardens in the south to
avoid the direct opposite of our suburban homes with older and finally
meet the volume of heterogeneous suburban avoiding the "bar" in
line with the edge of the sidewalk. North of our triangular lot, a small
apartment building in 3 stories + Attic comes to articulate the housing unit Marcel
Cachin to the rue Saint Germain, through a pedestrian way that could later
become a real street, building links between different areas. In the heart
of the lot, small 4 stories building take on the appearance of households with
their small individual gardens complete the system and an accompanying
pedestrian crossing a garden dedicated to the residence. This configuration allows us to offer people,
different ways of living, or for elderly or disabled who choose apartments with
easy access by elevator or ground floor, either for families or young couples
who will turn more easily to the intermediate housing more independent.