Skyline

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Skyline

Firm

Pangalos Dugasse Feldmann Architectes

Type

Residential › Multi Unit Housing

SIZE

500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft

BUDGET

$5M - 10M

The project
is situated in the developing district of Paris Seine Rive Gauche, Massena
Chevaleret, in the 13th quarter in Paris.

Our
project is a dynamic urban statement; its form reinvents the interaction
between the private sphere of a housing complex and the city. The volume
reveals its depth to the city and the building becomes a porous interface that
dramatizes the urban landscape.

Our
project is “positively urban", taking full advantage of the urban
requirements, it maximizes the density. Its form is fashioned in order to
assure the maximum access to daylight to the surrounding buildings. Its program
is devised to insure horizontal and vertical permeability between the private
and the public space. As the volume rises, it reveals a peculiar landscape in
the heart of the block. The garden links visually the Avenue de France and the
rue Jeanne Chauvin. The residents can enjoy a generous garden and a clear
vision of the building’s narrative that becomes a landmark for the
neighborhood.

The
internal structure of the housing complex is conceived with the same concern
for interaction between public and private use. The flats occupy the entire
depth of the building in order to have a double exposure and share the view of
the gardens: the collective central void of the building that embodies the
common space.

The skin
of the building that faces the garden has a colored and luminous quality
conferred by colored glazed tiles. The external skin of the building is a
reflective metallic cloak that is pierced where the loggias and terraces are
formed. This perforation of the volume, underlines the uniqueness of each flat,
embodies the scale of the individual facing the collective and animates the
form of the volume in a poetic contrast between solid and transparent elements.

We
conceived our project as a strong response to the will of the urban planners to
redefine housing in the architectural experiment that is the Massena quarter of
Paris.