The Villiot-Rapée project was the moment to seize the opportunity to compete in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and propose a social housing project that emerges from a public space.
This project is centred on programmatic hybridization in order to deliver a real quality of living - a pleasant feeling of privacy, a “contained atmosphere”.
Stemming from the reflection that the most important aspect of owning an individual house is to posses one’s own land, it’s through a process of stacking floors that the buildings are constructed. Each level and each apartment has a different ‘ground’, with its own functions and use.
Here we can talk about garden floors that are wound around the exterior of the building, engendering a different and unique living experience, where inhabitants can own a space measuring between 20 and 35 m2. Collective housing becomes individual housing and life can emerge, like plants and trees within a public park.
Landscape and architecture come together outside of all standard social housing conventions.
Appropriation, function, collective space… This is life!
Programme: Construction of 62 social housing units + activity centre + shared public spaces
Location: rue Villiot, Paris XII
Calendar: Competition entry 2007, completed in 2011
Landscape architecture: Pena & Pena
Distinctions: Project presented at the 2008 Venice architecture Biennale, winner of the PRIX AMO spécial Saint Gobain 2011.
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