50 Housing Units

50 Housing Units
© Filip Dujardin

50 Housing Units

Bruther

ARCHITECTS
Bruther

AREA
4000 m²

YEAR
2013

PHOTOGRAPHS
Filip Dujardin

PARTENAIRES
Evp, Michel Forgue, Cferm

CLIENT
Batigère

CATEGORY
Apartments

LOCATION
Limeil-brévannes, France

Text description provided by architect.

The problem in the understanding of inhabitation is that it is perceived as purely utilitarian.

50 Housing Units
© Filip Dujardin
50 Housing Units
© Filip Dujardin

Perceiving it as such, is to deny it of all the structural aspects it has on one’s perception and thus on one’s way of thinking.

In redefining the habitat and in admitting its completive part, one realizes that it is closely related to aesthetics.

50 Housing Units
© Filip Dujardin
50 Housing Units
© Filip Dujardin

In that sense, inhabiting would contain an essential aesthetic approach.

However, the question is how one can think habitation beyond its purely functional use, and instead seeing it as contemplative and thus as aesthetic?

Wouldn’t it be denying its primary function of shelter and protection?

In what way could inhabiting and dwelling, as a retreat from the world, be a space for reflection and contemplation of the exterior, and even be understood as privileged space?

50 Housing Units
© Filip Dujardin


50 Housing Units
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