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Rue De La Convention Housing

Rue De La Convention Housing
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RUE DE LA CONVENTION HOUSING

Jean-Paul Viguier Et Associés

ARCHITECTS
Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés, Pierre-Henri Cazes, Benjamin Doré

LOCATION
Paris, France

AREA
18200.0 m2

CATEGORY
Apartments

YEAR
2010

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The plan layout is grouped to form a compact building entity, providing both a coherent base for environmental performance concepts and a reply to the insertion of the program within the existing site. The density of the resulting model frees up the garden area and the facade of the building behind.

Rue De La Convention Housing
© Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre
Rue De La Convention Housing
© Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

This ‘compacting’ of the building is the result of a study to optimise its volumetric constraints and orientation in order to gain a maximum of direct sunlight without penalising the existing neighbours.

All apartments have a dual orientation which allows direct sunlight both morning and evening together with the additional comfort of cross-ventilation.

Rue De La Convention Housing
© Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre
Rue De La Convention Housing
© Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

The operation takes the form of a series of blocks of progressive height, linked by veranda type walkways. This principle generates a cascade of landscaped elements at the heart of the building.

The blocks are organised around compact, day lit services and circulation cores thus avoiding the ‘staircase syndrome’.

Rue De La Convention Housing
© Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre
Rue De La Convention Housing
© Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre
Rue De La Convention Housing
© Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

A series of measures have been undertaken in respect of sustainable design to give the project its ‘HQE’ status.


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