In order to have a more interesting navigation, we suggest upgrading your browser, clicking in one of the following links. All browsers are free and easy to install. An innovative project Paris, November 11, β In , Groupe 3F and the Courbevoie Town Council launched a competition for a social housing project on the last remaining plot in the urban development zone of Les Fauvelles. The instructions given to the teams were as follows: Β« the project must present new approaches for social housing in densely occupied urban settingsΒ».
The right response to the right question From the start, the exercise involved defining the intrinsic qualities of individual housing, with a view to adapting them to collective living. You can change how you use bedrooms and living areas as your family grows, and depending on the lifestyle and hobbies of each family member: the spare room becomes a nursery when a new child is born, a small bedroom is converted into an office, a growing teenager moves into the bedroom next to the living room because he prefers to be separate from the sleeping area used by the rest of the family, a wall is knocked down to make an open-plan kitchen, you can put a green house in the garden or play music in the garage.
You can walk around it. Being able to walk around the outside of a house gives people a particular sense of belonging. But circumnavigability also involves the presence of various kinds of external features: front lawns, courtyards, gardens, terraces, etc. A house is supposed to be unique It looks different from the others; you can recognize it when you look down the street; you can point it out.
Your neighbours remain for a long time, and with them you gradually form bonds: you chat over the hedge, you do each other favours, your children play together. Neighbours build a relationship of mutual trust. Elevation KOZ Architectes. Once this initial exercise had been carried out, our aim was now to apply these 4 cardinal virtues of the individual house to a collective housing project. All around, the storey residential buildings in the Faubourg de l'Arche development zone form both a skyline and an urban clearing.
Behind it stands a building belonging to a French car manufacturer. The project consists of two units with rather undefined outlines, further blurred by the criss-crossed green strengthening rods that have been used as sculptural guardrails for the various walkways and loggias. Both units are built on a sculpted base and stand out against the sky like a pair of funny giants reaching out to each other. This contains a room "plugged into" the living room whose use can change according to the desires and changing size of the family unit.
