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Olivier Debré Contemporary Art Center / Aires Mateus

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 03:00:00 +0000

The project of Olivier Debré Contemporary Art Center originates in an international competition that called for proposal to transform the former “Ecole des beaux-arts” in Tours in a space for the exhibition and creation of contemporary Arts, alongside with the conservation of the collection of the abstract painter Olivier Debré.
The ambition of the program was to respect and dialogue with the dense historical city center, to conserve the character of the existing building, but at the same time to provide huge scale voids for the new exhibition function as well as an open relationship with the city. The project originated in the existing conditions: a valuable architectural heritage, a particular urban context, a lucid ambition expressed by the competition brief. Accompanying them is the unique illuminating vision of reality in the work of Olivier Debré.

Arches Boulogne / Antonini + Darmon Architectes

Fernanda Castro — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 05:00:00 +0000

The project B5 Boulogne is part of the urban development zone called Seguin Rives de Seine near Paris. This area was formerly home to the monumental Renault factories. As a result of the delocalization of these factories, a surface of 74 hectares has been liberated. This new area named “Macrolot B5” has been divided into seven smaller blocks distributed around a large urban garden. Seven architects were selected to design seven different buildings, organized by an urban coordinator in charge of the Macrolot B5.

Apartments in Avenue de Saxe / ECDM

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 05:00:00 +0000

The design of our project was developed to focus on three strong intentions structured by the heirloom of this singular parcel.

Arcueil ZAC du Coteau / ECDM

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The idea was to extend the surface of the apartments by balconies representing a minima 50% of the living area with a drastic construction cost : 1350 € / sqm.

48 Logements BBC / Atelier Tarabusi

Jonathan Alarcón — Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The project site is in Clichy-sous-Bois (a Parisian suburban area) inside the urban distribution plan of Dhuys and part of the overall urban renovation masterplan of Clichy-Montfermeil.

Cräche rue Pierre Budin / ECDM

Fabian Cifuentes — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The project takes place into a heterogeneous district made of buildings of any sizes, of any styles, any periods. It’s an environment slightly old-fashioned, hybrid and disintegrated, typical of the heterogeneous architecture which characterizes the Parisian periurban zones. Modernity came to complete this disorder : Adjacent to the site, an out of size construction, built in derogation of the property limits (adding a supplementary urban intention parameter), forbids any common denominator, any possibility of creating a homogeneous composition. The day-nursery is thus an attempt, for a tiny building of public utility, to exist in an unfavorable relationship in the shade of a twelve story construction which takes light, overhangs and crushes everything.

Jean-Perrin High School / Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés

Megan Jett — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:00:00 +0000

Often the construction of a high school creates a shift in scale and typology of the urban tissue. The new Jean Perrin High School shelters 632 students and 32 interns in the heart of a housing district in the city of Nanterre. The design proposed by Brenac & Gonzalez integrates the urban dimension, the typology of the site and creates a special relationship with its surroundings.

Student Housing in Epinay / ECDM

Nico Saieh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The conception of our project joins in a second reading of the landscape of the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history and its transformations to assert the manners and the qualities and reveal the poetry of the place. The project will have to play the role of revelation of a district in future, articulation of a split up territory, a synthesis of a town planning consisted of industrial and commercial buildings, detached flags of the last century, complexes and public equipments. The stakes are to impose a politeness on a secondary road, to desynchronize the shelf space built by the rhythm of the automobile, to modify the perception of a landscape having undergone without having controlled it the transformation of its territory. The politeness is there, but very little legible; it is a question of making it the evident presence.

Louis Blanc Social Housing / ECDM

Nico Saieh — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The construction of the housing project located 45 Louis Blanc Street in the 10th quarter of Paris is the result of a project launched in 1998 by the Paris city real-estate authority. The property developer was expected to take a piece of land measuring 550 m² and replace an abandoned squat there which had been slotted for demolition with a low-cost building proposing 13 apartments (program specifications), that adhered to the HQE (High Environmental Quality) standards still being determined at the time.

RATP Bus Center in Thiais / ECDM

Nico Saieh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Located in the southern suburban area of Paris along wide boulevards and roadway interchanges, in an industrial landscape characterised by a succession of boxes (at best basic), the RATP Bus Centre in Thiais controls all the bus lines of the south and east of Paris.

Collage Paris / ECDM

Nico Saieh — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Located at the intersection of the homogeneous and haussmannian landscape along Gossec Street, and of the disparate architecture made up through time on Picpus Street, the site on which this 63 social housing program is established is an element of a typical “collage-city” landscape, also characterized by a double movement of the natural soil: the connection, on its front part, to the deep slope of the Picpus Street, and, on its backyard limit, to a landmark garden, 1.50 m higher than the average level of the soil.