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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Familistère Dwellings Montreuil in France by archi5October 29th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: archi5 archi5 was founded in 2003, the fruit of its founders’ common agency experience and the approach they share to architecture. A context-based approach to projects is key: the site, the programme, the social and cultural challenges are all examined, nalyzed and compared. These data are then transformed into questions.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia
 Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia The projects offer a dynamic and comprehensive response to those issues to the highest standard that has come to be archi5’s trademark. This approach is visible, legible in every building. It confers meaning and form and is perceptible in the projects’ applications, spaces and environmental impact. It is the essence of our confidence in architecture, its capacity to enhance humankinds’ environment.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia The agency uses its acumen and know-how to instill this ethos throughout and to guarantee its continuity. archi5 has a staff of 35 working out of Paris and Warsaw. Establishing strategic links with the best technical partners and expert consultants the agency further develops its skills.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia The success archi5 has achieved in public contract tenders and the private sector has allowed the agency to expand its horizons beyond Europe. archi5 currently has big urban development projects in train in Argentina and Brazil and a Museum in Rabat. We propose an interpretation of a form of architecture that is sensitive to the challenges it deals with, mindful of those who will live with and in it, ambitious in its convictions.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia Shared dwellings The Familistère is an auto-development dwellings project for and from archi5 partners. The plot is just next to the architecture studio. The whole project took two years from funding, conception, design and construction.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia An heterogeneous context Around the site, like often in the city of Montreuil, the existing is extremely various. Houses with pretty garden, a schoo, a church, seven stories social housings are co-existing in a friendly anarchy. Since the plot is very close to the metro, the urbanistic rules allow 7 stories to be built. the idea of a homogeneous building made evidence with a stainless steel cladding covering both façade and roof. This volume adds its signature to the environment.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia A stealth building The right answer to this context was to design a light building, with reduced visual impact. The abstract façade reflects its environment. The windows with their dark grey frames are animating this façade. The stainless steel reflections is slightly blurred by light waves on the façade.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia A building following the weather It takes sky’s tint, following seasons as trees around. This envelop gives to the building many changing identities. It’s a dynamic façade, giving back sunlight to surroundings buildings during the day and reflecting street lights at night.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © archi5  Image Courtesy © archi5
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