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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.

Le Havre – Cote Docks Vauban / Philippe Dubus Architecte

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Located in the Docks du Havre (76) area, this private ownership, 65-unit congregate housing project renews the venue’s gradually disappearing authenticity. It highlights a few snatches of the old, e.g. this small corner-building that the new building encloses, while expressing its contemporaneous signature with concrete and metallic casing. Following on an initial housing project on the same site, this latest project continues the idea of varying housing types: town houses, stacked dwellings and congregate housing, all of which comes together on three visual levels with unified metallic casing that magnifies Le Havre’s maritime light. Very near the Bains des Docks, designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, the terrain is located in Le Havre’s port area across from the Vatine wet docks. To give the architects direction architect/town-planner Bruno Fortier developed a dialectic between «heavy» and «light» while the project specifications maintained certain historical notes that hallmarked the past and kept it from becoming just another modern commercial development.

Grand Synthe - Place Du Courghain / Philippe Dubus Architecte

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Urban yet bucolic, this project rounds out the urban renewal of the Courghain district in Dunkirk's suburbs. The venue is divided between the very city-oriented square of the same name and a watergang (a small Dutch-like canal). All the more so because the city's urban planner called for facades on each of the surrounding streets and blocks on the square while the project only contains 57 social housing units.