Eden Bio / Edouard François

Nov 2010

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Designed by architect Edouard François, Eden Bio housing complex includes 100 housing units, 52 parking spaces, artists’ studios, along with community gathering spaces for local activities. The architect created a contemporary design with a pastiche of old Paris style.

Follow the break for more photographs of Eden Bio.

Architects: Edouard François
Location: Paris, France
Client: OPAC de Paris
Project Area: 7,700 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Patrycja Ogonowska

The project is somewhat a maze of stairs, a mixture of concrete and wood latice, coupled with vertical timber extensions gracing the exteriors of the housing units. The wood fencing lining the sidewalk somehow seems to work well with the colors of terra cotta in the roofing and window boxes, and varied shades of gray as siding.

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

: © Patrycja Ogonowska

* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Cite:
Minner , Kelly . "Eden Bio / Edouard François" 19 Nov 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/89635>

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James says:

The main image reminds me more of a shanty town in india than anything else

# November 19, 2010 at 15:07

Allan says:

It’s like under construction. I wouldn’t live there, although one side of the facades seems nice.

# November 19, 2010 at 15:54

R. Girardin says:

This is a what we frenche call a publicitary “coup”.

Everyone is talking about ecological houses, so he gaves the stereotype of a low tech/cost thing and design it in a very rude way to say : “hey look i made it look like emergency architecture”, like if design was something only for the bloody rich people of this planet who rules the world.

Anyway, edouard francois is always in this kind of shoking images, and it seems it’s working : i’m loosing my time writing about him..

# November 19, 2010 at 19:23

me says:

hei girardin, yeah, u r losing ur time.
too bad u dont manage to understand architecture outside your own field of view.
good luck!

# November 20, 2010 at 04:35

Archopping says:

please,tell me more about this architecture.
i need more explanations.

# November 20, 2010 at 07:16

vuvu says:

@James & Allan
it might be worth checking out the scheme design images to understand why it looks the way it does. As you say it looks ‘under construction’ and it actually is, as in time the plants will grow and the facades will become lush with vegetation.

# November 20, 2010 at 07:26

Kanenas says: