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Programme: 22 rental self-contained accommodations
and 10 self-contained housing for purchase – High Environmental Quality / Low Energy
Building
> Location Bel
Air district, Poitiers (86000)
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Project ownership:LOGIPARC
OPH - Poitiers
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Project manager: Sarl Lanoire & Courrian, architects -
Cétab Ingénierie, engineering office
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Area:net floor area
3192 m2 - Roads and utilities 1385 m2 (590 m2 of
parking and garages) - 2145 m2 of gardens and green ways - (SHON: 3192
m2 _ SHAB:2 560 m2)
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Schedule:Architecture
competition 2007, delivery 2012
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Building cost:3.44
MEuro exVAT
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Procedure: Project management market with restricted
competition.
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Photo credit:©S.Chalmeau
> Prix au Palmarès
Construction Bois Poitou-Charentes pour l’opération « Bel-Air » 32 Pavillons
bioclimatiques à Poitiers.
Urban project
We
wished to create a cluster of houses that is both a privacy area and a smoothed
porous space, either from the outside or from the inside of the block.
A
service road irrigates the hearth of the cluster. It is marked out on both
sides by vegetated areas.
The
project is a hybrid space, between a square and a garden.
Architecture Project
We
have imagined this project like a succession of strip parcel.
At
some places the strips are cut-out, only noticed thanks to a treatment on the
floor that defines the outside space.
At
other places the lashes form the volume of the building; in fact we could say
that the building is contained by those lashes.
The
whole cluster of houses is surrounded by a very porous fence which forms the bases
of some accommodations.
The
frontages are made as the roofing, in a pearly and lacquered metal with wide
waves.
The
delicacy of the metal corresponds to the idea of the initial folding.
The
structures in front of the frontages virtually stretch the volume of the
lashes. Those structures are used as a support for a vertical plant wall and
for the louvered shutters, in the roofing prolongation, that will protect the
Southern frontages from the summer sunshine.
There
are buildings, there are gardens.
The
outdoor spaces are punctuated by objects: trellising, log cabins,… Different
varieties of fruit-trees are planted in each lash, coupled with the different
shades of claddings; it offers a real diversity and a coloured quaking to the
site.
Likewise,
the slight difference in the buildings implantation makes the whole place
vibrate behind the aligned fence.
Functioning
The
block is covered by three ways on the periphery. An intramural mixed way makes a
loop that irrigates the heart of the block.
The
pedestrian alleys:
They
create practical and botanical visual openings from North to South.
Parking:
The
self-contained housing for purchase are situated on either sides of the square,
in the heart of the block. They all have a garage and a ground parking space.
North, the access to the garages is situated directly in the Frères Morane
Street. South, the access to the garages is made through the internal servicing
way.
The
rental self-contained accommodations are situated Eastern and Western of the
block. Some have
a ground parking place right in front of the house. Others have access to small
parking pools (4 or 5 cars) that are sheltered with the same covering as the accommodations.
Housing:
One-storey
houses. The lounges, living-rooms, kitchens and storerooms are always on the
ground floor. The bedrooms and the bathrooms are upstairs. The
storerooms/toilets of the ground floor are equipped with shower siphon in order
to convert this space into a bathroom. Like this, all the ground-floors form a
large living area (living room + kitchen + bathroom) accessible from the ground
level.
All
the living rooms are situated at the South and communicate directly with a
small garden. In every garden, there is a small log cabin (made as the fence)
to put away garden tools; and a cistern for rainwater that can be used to water
the gardens.
Outside
areas:
The
diversity of the outside spaces creates different type of intimacy compared to
the housing and a hierarchy between public and private life.
This
structuring is created by the presence of the central square, the pedestrian
alleys, the small gardens next to living rooms, and the small courtyards. All
those landscaped areas are more or less porous one to another, keeping in mind
that we wanted to propose a smooth porous space, blend by various outside areas
with different atmospheres.