8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury

8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Fence, Facade, Concrete, Handrail8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Facade, Handrail8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Handrail, Balcony8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Facade8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - More Images+ 17

Mancioux, France
  • Architects: Benjamin Fleury
  • Project Management: Benjamin Fleury
  • Assistance Of Work Control: Artelia
  • Analyses Manager: T.Riboud & L.Hardelay
  • Building Site Manager: Sophie Lee
  • Maitrise D’ouvrage Cpi: MDH Promotion
  • Client: Foncière Logement
  • Cost: 1.253.000 Euros HT
  • City: Mancioux
  • Country: France
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8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Facade, Windows
© David Boureau

Text description provided by the architects. A fast-changing specific district:

The district of Quatre-Chemins is an old suburb in which lives a disadvantaged population and where is concentrated a degraded housing environment. Situated in a difficult urban area, this district is the object of a vast program of urban renovation which wants to reduce the number of unhealthy housing environment. In this context, “Foncière Logement” produces three diffuses operations that propose big rented apartment for rent for employees with good income, favoring the social mixing inside the district.

8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Facade
© David Boureau

Outside Suburb:

The wish to settle in this district a wealthy population must be followed by a specific architectural writing, with a precise, sober and respectful insertion.

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Section

To reach that purpose, the facade on street has a contemporary vocabulary proposing different typical themes of historical suburb: the base, the body and the roof.

8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Facade
© David Boureau

Contemporary reinterpretation of the base with use of a white varnished brick, stopped on the right adjacent ledge. Access by a hall similar to the neighboring building offers a sight of all the length of the land’s plot.

8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Facade
© David Boureau

The body is in plaster and the windows‘proportions that combine double and single openings are the same of the left building. The windows’ frames are similar to those of the opposite building. The three movedf windows as well as the shutters animate the composition and at the same time they underline the contemporary character of the building.

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Floor Plan

On the left, The building’s height aligns on  the nearby building. On the right, the attic with a three meters move from the façade, align on the right building’s height.,

8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows
© David Boureau

To give a movement to the facade in a sober way, in the style of the “Suprematist Composition - White on White” of Malevich, the elements of locksmitheries, plaster, brick and glass (for the fixed parts), possess all their own declination of white, the dominant color of suburb.

8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Fence, Facade, Concrete, Handrail
© David Boureau

Inside Garden:

The trapezoid shape of the plot of land which has a strongly acute angle, in combination with a big height of limits, confers to the place a sensation of strangeness that we wish to sublimate rather than suffer from it. To make it happen the necessary plastic moderation of the road’s side is replaced by a play of complexities so as to dramatize this incongruous place:

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Floor Plan

A play of folds gives a rythm to the various levels of the facade. These folds, by widening or by contracting, create external spaces facing south, for every apartment. This play of volume allows, at the same time, to personalize every apartment. On the left, the base stretches up to the lateral façade and on the right side the body retracts to align itself on the nearby facade. The height line of the building comes to close this theme by articulating three slopes of roof. Furthermore, the use of a covering in larch’s natural wood composed slatted raises the spirit of the garden.

8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Facade, Handrail
© David Boureau

On these slants as well as in the chinks of the slatted covering, the sun hangs on its shadows that sculpture differently the volumes following the slope of its way.

8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Facade, Handrail, Balcony
© David Boureau

The wooden shutters can be randomly opened by the inhabitants, constantly transforming the composition of the façade. , And when those shutters are closed, they transform the volume into an unusual closed box.

8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury - Windows, Facade, Handrail
© David Boureau

Eventually, the garden will cover ground and walls borders and the place will become like a vegetable cave opened on the sky, protected from the intensity of the city.

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Address:Quatre Chemins, 31360 Mancioux, France

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Cite: "8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury" 14 Jun 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/515493/8-housing-in-patin-benjamin-fleury> ISSN 0719-8884

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