33Flats Housing & 40 Cradle Nursery
A construction like an imposed figure, the reflection of constrained urban calibres, but knowing how to find its own specificity thanks to the treatment of the frontages and the arrangement of the housing.
With an average of five flats by level for only one stairwell, we took the stand of compacity and then decided to homothetically reduce the envelope capacity of the frame in order to liberate the maximum exterior spaces. Therefore, we define a terrace or a balcony for each housing, delimited by metal skin randomly perforated, like a permeable envelop with different points of view.
As a matter of fact, each flat is widely glazed on outside views and most of them owns a double orientation. The nursery is developed on the ground floor, with its entrance on the opposite frontage of the housing one. Lines, transparencies and superpositions embody the building, favouring at the same time the intimacy of the inhabitants and a colourful presence in this new urbanenvironment.
More than a simple continuity of the two next blocks around, the building conforms to the expected volumes but claims its own identity in a overall coherence.
