Forty-Six Dwellings / Jean-François Schmit

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 01:00:00 +0000

Occupying three sides of a large plot on the outskirts of the town of Sceaux, south of Paris, the building is a hybrid, multi-faceted object. The passer-by approaching the development along Rue Houdan will not see any fundamental difference to the other apartment buildings lining this radial road leading to the town centre. Standing back, he will doubtless be surprised by the top floors, which appear to be occupied by a wild, unrestrained roof-top extension. Completing his circumnavigation, he will discover a long frontage comprising a succession of different types of construction, monolith, apartment building and private house, united by a long plinth, playing on solid masses and recesses and complementarity of scale.

Maison De Retraite / Philippe Dubus Architecte

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Three periods and three buildings: the Renaudin house, a large 19^th-century mansion resting peacefully at the foot of a listed cedar tree, overlooking gently sloping grounds very close to the town center; a bland extension from the 1980s; and the new building designed by the agency that highlights the grounds' plant-life heritage and its topography in order to clarify the way this venue is seen and is incorporated into its select environment. For its first approach to this sort of brief, the agency moved away from the usual scheme of things and broke with the overly hospital nature of nursing homes.

City: sceaux | ArchDaily

Forty-Six Dwellings / Jean-François Schmit

Maison De Retraite / Philippe Dubus Architecte