Jolimont - Social housing

Jolimont - Social housing
© Miguel de Guzmán

Jolimont - Social housing

Nomos Architects

STATUS
Built

BUDGET
Undisclosed

SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

PHOTO
Miguel de Guzmán (9), MiniMac (3)

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Geneva, Switzerland

TYPE
Residential › Apartment Multi Unit Housing

The building is located on the higher grounds of Geneva’s Mervelet neighbourhood.

Jolimont - Social housing
© Miguel de Guzmán
Jolimont - Social housing
© Miguel de Guzmán

At the heart of a rapidly changing residential area, the site has the remains of a garden-city with scattered century-old houses and trees.

Depending on use and context, the outside skin of the building can have several expressive overlays.

It reacts like a sensitive interface between inhabitants and their perceived and lived environment.

Jolimont - Social housing
© Miguel de Guzmán
Jolimont - Social housing
© Miguel de Guzmán
Jolimont - Social housing
© Miguel de Guzmán

Facing south and west, the alternate assembly of prefabricated concrete modules creates the structure of an inhabited hive.


Jolimont - Social housing
© MiniMac
Jolimont - Social housing
© Miguel de Guzmán
Jolimont - Social housing
© MiniMac
Jolimont - Social housing
© Miguel de Guzmán
Jolimont - Social housing
© Miguel de Guzmán
Jolimont - Social housing
© MiniMac


Jolimont - Social housing
Jolimont - Social housing