La Fresque
La Fresque
Ithaques + Atelier WRA
YEAR
2013
LOCATION
Versailles, France
CATEGORY
Apartments
Text description provided by architect.
The architectural project is clear: regular windows are those of student housing. The large faults indicate (and light) circulations.
They divide the building different volumes whose skin reflects the context : very mineral side city, wood forest side ...
Good building, simple idea, nice details, it looks like it has nothing to hide but...
It's a timber structure building of 5 floors, placed on a pre-existing infrastructure.
The wooden building is unmarked. This not ostentatious environmental approach was a bit complex to implement, but it is exciting because it shows that it is possible to build wood without writing specific!
It's now possible to produce open, free architecture, while monitoring its grey energy rates.
