Danube Mixed-use Building

Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi

DANUBE MIXED-USE BUILDING

COSA Colboc Sachet architectures

FLUIDS ENGINEERING
Cyberfluides

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Cte

MANUFACTURERS
Horizal

PHOTOGRAPHS
Camille Gharbi

AREA
5100 m²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Strasbourg, France

CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Apartments

Text description provided by architect.

An eco-neighbourhood is emerging on a brownfield site on the outskirts of Strasbourg. The entry hall becomes the only distribution space, also making the master bedroom a separate space.

Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi

At its eastern entrance, COSA is responsible for the coordination of the Block I project and for supporting DEA architectes and Denu & Paradon architecture in the design of the apartment buildings.

COSA is also developing a 340-spots overground car park, a mixed-use residential and office building, and the central area of the block.

The mixed-use building consists of a two-storey plinth containing amenities, with housing units above.

Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi

In order to minimise the distribution spaces in the apartments, the traditional day and night division is disrupted: bedrooms with direct daylight, kitchen, and bathroom on borrowed daylight, are laid out on either side of the living room.

The living rooms open onto a loggia, which forms an additional room in its own right, and also gives the bedrooms a dual-orientation. 

The facades, made of raw and framed precast concrete, reflect the mechanism of the designs.

Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Mixed-use Building
© Camille Gharbi

Fillings made of concrete sculpted with abstract patterns, and doors and windows with golden brown tones, give the building a subtly precious appearance.


Danube Mixed-use Building
Site plan
Danube Mixed-use Building
Ground floor plan
Danube Mixed-use Building
Floor plan level 2
Danube Mixed-use Building
Floor plan level 5
Danube Mixed-use Building
Floor plan level 7
Danube Mixed-use Building
Housing sketch


Danube Mixed-use Building
Facade concrete detail
Danube Mixed-use Building
Facade section plan
Danube Mixed-use Building
Facade detail