Article source: Christophe Hutin Architecture

The exceptional and particularly innovative conditions of living given by the « Hauts plateaux » project, phases 1&2, makes it « primum inter pares » and give a clear and new proposal for the housing issue. This project means to create new conditions of living, in which one can find on one hand the desire to live in collective and comfortable housing and on the second hand the necessity of intimacy. It gives the qualities and the liberties of an individual house in collective structure, inside an urban agglomeration. This project carries the idea of the evolution of life of the people, it aims to offer pleasure of living. In this sense, it is sustainable.

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• Architects: Christophe Hutin Architecture
• Project: “Les Hauts Plateaux” innovative housing project
• Location: Bègles, Gironde, France
• Photography: Philippe Ruault
  
• Client: Domofrance SA HLM
• Technical consultant: Bollinger – Grohmann ; ARTEC
• Cost: “Hauts plateaux 1” : 2 420 000 € (tax exclusive) + “Hauts Plateaux 2 : 1 450 000 € (tax exclusive)
• Size: “Hauts plateaux 1” : 1 700 M² + “Hauts Plateaux 2 : 1 600M²

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