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- Architects: Atelier du Pont
- Location: 36 Rue de Belleville, 75020 Paris, France
- Lead Architects: Atelier du Pont Architects – Philippe Croisier & Anne-Cécile Comar (architect project manager: Luc Pinsard)
- Area: 1257.0 m2
- Project Year: 2018
- Photographs: Takuji Shimmura
- Collaborators: EVP, Delta, Axio, Plan02, FARC
- Client: Elogie-Siemp
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Text description provided by the architects. The project is composed of 2 buildings hosting 19 social housing units, and a shop on ground floor. The urban fabric of Belleville is composed of two intersecting systems: on the one hand narrow busy roads lined with typical “faubourg”-style apartment buildings cascading down the hill; and on the other the spaces at the centers of the city blocks, which are very narrow, often planted, and lined with vernacular buildings running perpendicular to the slope.
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We wanted to restore this double-sided character on the Rue de Belleville with a design that plays the density, piling and stratification games through a contemporary design revisiting the traditional faubourg housing type.
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The heart of the block is a green alley that harmonizes with the existing fabric and reveals the depth of the plot. Box-balconies stretch from the facade to offer generous outdoor spaces and wide and unobstructed views of Paris.
A new building that infiltrate the urban jungle while claiming a significant change: exit insalubrity, the density is here mastered and happy.
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