35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office

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35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office - Exterior Photography, Facade
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Text description provided by the architects. A project steeped in the industrial past The construction of a building that includes 35 housing units (privately owned and social housing) and a cabinetmaking workshop located on the ground floor. A former Botelli cabinetmaking workshop, the workshop contributes to the historical continuity of the site and evokes the past through the architectural design. In continuation of the adjoining architecture, through the construction details, the building evokes the history of the site (cabinetmaking workshop), our epoch, and contemporary construction methods.

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35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office - Exterior Photography, Facade
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The MAO practice design intent was to reinterpret the archetypes of Parisian light industrial architecture while giving the new building a contemporary interpretation. The building seeks to serve as a reference point rather than an object out of context. The project bears witness to the site history, even though the century-old original workshop was unfortunately demolished for economic reasons and the decline in workshops within city limits. The architects wanted to evoke this past through the clever use of timber in the project.

35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office - Interior Photography, Door
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35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office - Interior Photography, Door
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A building assembled like a piece of furniture. The building is designed as an assembly of different components, just like a piece of furniture. Its vertical precast concrete structure (prémur), reduced to a strict minimum, supports the floor slabs. Between these structural elements, large timber trusses give the building its identity, through the clever and intricate assembly of concrete and timber elements. The construction technique of prefabricated concrete and timber is also part of the site history - the building is designed, prefabricated, assembled, and adjusted like a piece of furniture. The project expresses the assembly of the intangible and the tangible: Assemble history, Assemble stories, Assemble spaces, Assemble functions, Assemble materials, Assemble memories, Assemble lights, Assemble landscapes, Assemble intentions.

35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office - Exterior Photography
© Nicolas Grosmond

The project is a subtle blend that ultimately allows each element to find its own balance which contributes a richness that enhances the composition and harmony of the building. Space and materiality in harmony with the site The quality of a home depend largely on its luminosity and thus the design of its windows. The practice attaches great importance to detail and the proper use of materials that encourage multiple uses, appropriation by the occupier, and great durability of the element. At street level recalling the rhythm of former workshops, the timber joinery is integrated into the elevation grid. All the windows are very tall to maximise light within the home.

35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office - Exterior Photography
© Charlotte Toscan du Plantier

The windows are either inward opening or fixed bow windows. The alternation between the fixed and opening elements facilitates the maintenance of the entire facade. On the ground floor, the joinery takes on the "workshop spirit", with window frames in upper and lower segments. At the "loft" unit level, a double skin in the facade creates a buffer zone between the street and the unit interior. In terraces, the winter gardens on the roof deck create intermediate living spaces in the extension of the internal spaces.

35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Nicolas Grosmond

The kitchen winter garden creates a cosy place to install a dining table, meal preparation table, herb garden, raised beds for a roof deck vegetable garden, an armchair for reading and to have breakfast, etc. ...This space is a direct relation with the outside that creates a homely atmosphere within the apartment. The site and its history heavily inspired us to create an elegant and sober project that fits into the urban and architectural context of the historically light industrial neighbourhood in Rue de Charonne. The practice wanted to locate the project with-in a historical continuity while preserving its soul.

35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office - Interior Photography, Facade
© Nicolas Grosmond

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Address:9 Rue Charrière 11th, 75011 Paris, France

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Cite: "35 Social Housing Units / mobile architectural office" 07 Nov 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/950137/35-social-housing-units-mobile-architectural-office> ISSN 0719-8884

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