Article source: Avenier Cornejo Architectes 

The 38 social housing units at 10/12 rue Bonnet in the city of Clichy-la-Garenne completed for Efidis (social housing landlord) are located at the doorstep of Paris, along the périphérique beltway.

At the edge of the capital and its inner suburbs, they look towards both the Clichy-Batignolles district and the new high court designed by Renzo Piano, and the greater Paris area. Inside and out, they embody the metropolitan issue of eliminating borders. The architects seem to have set a roadmap to relay the dynamism that characterizes the urban development zone of Batignolles in a disparate environment. It is this double relationship with the city dictating the physiognomy of the building that seems to transcend the limits of the périphérique to connect two different urbanities towards a common future.

Image Courtesy © Takuji Shimmura

• Architects: Avenier Cornejo Architectes
• Project: 38 Housing units 
• Location: Clichy-la-Garenne 92110, France – 10/12, rue Bonnet
• Photography: Takuji Shimmura and Avenier Cornejo
  
• Client: Efidis / groupe SNI
• Project leaders: Miguel Cornejo, Christelle Avenier, Somanad Petitjean, Julia Leroy
• Engineering firms: EVP Ingénierie, CFERM Ingénierie, Fabrice Bougon
• Cost: 4500 000 € ex-Tax
• Total floor area: 2739 sqm
• Plot area: 430 sqm
• Garden: 57 sqm
• Floor area apartments: 2 563 sqm
• Floor area commercial space: 90 sqm
• Floor area billiard room: 86 sqm
• Completion: June 2016

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