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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. Jaurès Petit Housings in Paris, France by archi5July 9th, 2022 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: archi5 Located on a plot of land in the heart of the block occupied by an 8 stories car park, the project comprises two operations of 75 housing units for sale and 74 social housing units. The project proposes to engage the project’s actors, as well as the inhabitants, in the steps of a rational, visionary and sustainable approach to urban transformation.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia
 Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia The social housing building is built in a wooden structure, while the building for home ownership is built by preserving and adapting the concrete structure of the existing car park. Through their respective specificities, the two projects meet the overall challenge set. The preliminary costs of demolition are completely reviewed. The new wood-frame operation of the Jaurès housing offers a structure adapted to the specifications of Paris Habitat (thickness of the building, orientations, interior organisation). THE BIRTH OF A BLOCK The social housing operation is composed of a main building, two one-storey wings and a set of two-storey houses along the eastern party line. Beyond the quality of the new housing, the project is guided by the improvement of the pre-existing building, the harmony and the balance between the new and old inhabitants of the site.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia The implantation of the buildings, perpendicular to the head buildings, offers a maximum of visual openings. No facing buildings are created. The new dwellings are oriented east-west. Sliding shutters increase the privacy of the inhabitants, blurring the lateral views. Two large side passages allow for a real greening of the site. Sunny and open, these gardens are planted with tall trees. In the heart of the plot, a large crossing is now perceptible. It determines a new urban perception, a fluidity of space. The gardens of the two projects are realized in continuity in a single, large garden. By preserving the traces of the existing building, the project links the district to the essence of its constitution. This peripheral district in the process of becoming residential was home to multiple activities that forged its urban structure.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia Totally rethought, but not erased, the heart of the block is transformed in continuity, without rupture or denial. The social housing building, on the Jaurès side, uses the codes of the old building with a visible wooden frame that supports the balconies. With a strong and committed commitment to preservation and ecological construction of high environmental quality, the project brings to the site the ambition of a quality, ethical and sustainable architecture. The materials used, wood cladding and zinc roofing, are natural and sustainable. The typological variety gives rise to a varied architectural language, which composes a coherent urban assembly. This play of scale and materials favours the expression of a domestic, friendly language.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia  Image Courtesy © archi5  Image Courtesy © archi5  Image Courtesy © archi5  Image Courtesy © archi5  Image Courtesy © archi5  Image Courtesy © archi5  Image Courtesy © archi5  Image Courtesy © archi5
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