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Architects: Bruno Rollet Architect
- Area: 334 m²
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:Nicolás Borel
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Manufacturers: Arcelor Mittal
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Text description provided by the architects. In its context, the transformation of Square Vitruve’s former commercial site in the 20th arrondissement of Paris in the community center could be a textbook case. Situated on a slab covering three storeys of parking at the foot of an 85m high tower, this building of only 322m2 SHON is also contiguous to a block of apartments 60m long. In other words, this scheme resides within an enclave.
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By throwing himself into the project architect Bruno Rollet, laureate of the consolation conducted by the social-housing landlord France Habitation, inherited major constraints. They are connected to the slab’s urbanism from the 1970s which characterise Saint Blaise, one of the most dense Parisian neighbourhoods (78% social housing over 4 hectares).
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Its organization of high rise buildings promoted isolation and d withdrawal of this former Charonne village justifying an extensive public intervention : the restructuring of the Cardeurs-Vitruve perimeter, first operational secotr of the “Grand Projet de Renouvellement Urbain GPRU” (Great Urban Renewal Project) led by Semaest since 2010.
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