Dwellings rue Père Corentin in Paris, France by ECDM Architectes

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The project that RATP has entrusted to us consists of the realization of 2 housing buildings imbricated with a bus center.

In a specific and referenced work based on emblematic Parisian operations (Eugène Beaudoin and Marcel Lods: Atlas passage, Henri Sauvage: Vavin street), the 1st building of our operation implanted rue Père Corentin presents a stepped facade combined with terraces, designed to receive a generous vegetation and solve the wide gap existing between the buildings that surround it: a R+2 Mansart-type pavilion and a R+12 building resulting from the modernity. This graduation work opens this narrow street to the sky and desaturates its noisy ambiance.

Image Courtesy © Salem Mostefaoui

• Architects: ECDM Architectes
• Project: Dwellings rue Père Corentin
• Location: Paris, France
• Photography: Salem Mostefaoui

Image Courtesy © Salem Mostefaoui

The 2nd building, in the heart of the block, is sculpted by the basic requirements of urban courtesy. The volume is compact, gathered under a huge roof. The morphology of the work is thus composed of edges and inclined faces which erase its presence as the construction rises. The volume is dense with a shift of its mass from west to east expressing a slight balance where the center of gravity is almost outside the volume.

Covered with a unifying anthracite gray zinc skin, this monolith sounds like a dense smooth boulder protected from the tumult of the city and yet widely open to the city.

Hyper-contextual, ultra-specific, the project modeled by the constraints of the site, is a link between two urban territories, mixing the intensity of the city and an endless green lung suspended in the sky of Paris.

Image Courtesy © Salem Mostefaoui

Image Courtesy © Salem Mostefaoui

Image Courtesy © Salem Mostefaoui

Image Courtesy © Salem Mostefaoui

Image Courtesy © Salem Mostefaoui

Image Courtesy © Salem Mostefaoui

Image Courtesy © Salem Mostefaoui

Mockup, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Schemes 1, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Location plan, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Schemes 2, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Mass plan, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

General axonometry, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Section building A and elevation building, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Section buildings A and B, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Elevation building A, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Origami facade building B, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Corentin, Section building, Image Courtesy © ECDM Architectes

Tags: France, Paris

Categories: Building, House, Residential

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