Textual content description offered by the architects. The venture entails the renovation of a gaggle of three social housing buildings surrounding a tree-lined sq. situated on the intersection of Rue de la Roche Fatale and Rue Montagne des Cerisiers. The advanced is ready in a verdant atmosphere, in shut relation to Georges Henri Park.
Architectural and City Design: Successive transformations up till the Eighties have altered the complete constructed ensemble. P&P’s interventions purpose to optimize the out there funds to enhance the standard of the housing whereas making certain their vitality efficiency and sturdiness. The requalification of the housing features a rational redistribution of areas across the current vertical circulation, in addition to the addition of volumes to the roofs and rear façades.
Interventions on the Buildings: The entrance façades are restored to their authentic configuration, with the alternative of Seventies home windows by frames that includes harmonious and coherent divisions. The constructing entrance doorways are additionally changed, respecting the unique design. Heritage parts of the façades are restored. Present vertical circulation techniques are maintained. The rear and aspect façades, which lack architectural options, are insulated and clad with flat terracotta tiles. The non-original pitched roofs are dismantled to revive the unique roof form, permitting the addition of latest volumes.
Addition of latest Volumes: Further volumes are added to the rear façades and roofs to extend the dwelling space of the residences and meet trendy habitability requirements. These extensions are constructed with light-weight constructions (wood framework) and clad in pre-patinated zinc siding in a heather-gray tone. These modern parts complement the present constructions whereas remaining discreet and set again from the historic parts.
Interventions on the Environment: Two current passages are preserved to make sure interior courtyard entry for people with decreased mobility. The rear backyard is redesigned to be accessible to all tenants. A part of the backyard is devoted to terraces for the ground-floor residences. These terraces are separated from the communal space by a sequence of plantings, making certain tenant privateness. The backyard additionally consists of areas for bicycle parking.
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