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Viviendas en Toulouse

Viviendas en Toulouse
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Viviendas en Toulouse

Mateo Arquitectura

STRUCTURE
Architect In Charge : Josep Lluís Mateo 

LANDSCAPE
Manuel Colominas

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Josep Lluís Mateo

CLIENT
Kaufman & Broad

PHOTOGRAPHS
Adrià Goula

AREA
13628 M²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Toulouse, France

CATEGORY
Apartments

Viviendas en Toulouse
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Text description provided by architect.

In Toulouse, near the airport and the river Garonne. A housing development that seeks to optimize the living conditions of each of its cells. The whole is broken down to prioritize the meeting with the domestic rather than insisting on the abstraction of the idea.

Viviendas en Toulouse
© Adrià Goula
Viviendas en Toulouse
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A complex of four independent but conceptually connected volumes (A, B, C and D) arranged around a semi-private garden. A formalizes the street leading to it, its volume exaggerating the perspective.
B is detached, in the middle; it has to reflect light inwards.

C twists its volume to construct the corner.
D is lower (three storeys) and light. It encloses the complex at the rear gently, like a fence.

Viviendas en Toulouse
© Adrià Goula
Viviendas en Toulouse
Viviendas en Toulouse
© Adrià Goula

A, B and C are finished in black and white brick, in varying but complementary propor tions.

A, on the street tarmac, is mainly black (80% black, 20% white). B, designed to reflect, is its opposite (80% white, 20% black). C, at the corner, is balanced (50% white, 50% black).

A, B and C all have zinc roofs with the same pitch, which slide down the rear façade in B.
D, light and soft, has wood.

Viviendas en Toulouse
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Viviendas en Toulouse
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The garden is a recreation, using characteristic materials (gravels, sands ...) and vegetation (poplars...), of the meander of the nearby river Garonne.

Based on this reasoning, the buildings were constructed with emphasis on the expressive capacity of artisan work as a sensible framework for human relations.

Viviendas en Toulouse
© Adrià Goula
Viviendas en Toulouse
© Adrià Goula


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