Benjamin Fleury Architect - Urbaniste

18 social housing units in Valenton

18 social housing units in Valenton

Benjamin Fleury Architecte-urbaniste

18 social housing units in Valenton

BUDGET
$1m - 5m

AREA
0 Sqft - 1000 Sqft

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Valenton, France

TYPE
Residential › Multi Unit Housing

18 social housing units in Valenton

HERITAGE AND INSERTION

The project is established on the former open-air parking lot of the Pré l'Arpent housing estate, mainly occupied by wrecked vehicleThis housing complex, built in 1974 by the Andrault and Parat agency, consists of a three-story stepped building with a first floor parking lot at its heart.s. 

This construction of high heritage quality demonstrates a time when these architects sought to reconcile the qualities of collective and individual housing through intermediate housing.

18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton

They designed several variations of the kind throughout the territory. Like many social landlords, pushed by the scarcity of land, Valophis habitat is seeking to develop its housing stock by densifying free spaces of its properties.

Here, the commission consists of raising a new construction of twenty housing units on the gable end of this heritage building, continuously to the Pré l'Arpent housing estate.

18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton

The parti of this design was to deliberately avoid any strategy of mimicry, or on the contrary of affirmed duality, which would have led in both cases to a weakened project of the existing building.

The method was therefore to build a simple volume with a compatible and discrete vocabulary, with great sobriety.

18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton

VOLUME AND MATERIALITY

We conceived a built volume of three levels suspended on a ground floor void housing the parking lots.

In order to encounter the horizontal strata of the neighboring terraces, the volume has horizontal lines marked by large strips. In order to encounter the horizontal strata of the neighboring terraces, the volume has horizontal lines marked by large strips.

18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton

Always in a spirit of resonance, the filling of the facades between In this search for deletion, the openings are of identical size and are arranged in a double vertical and horizontal grid that is strictly systematic.

The last level, strongly set back, lightens and gives the building a horizontal silhouette. A concrete cap, intensifying the prow-shape of the whole, extends the front of this attic. The last level, strongly set back, lightens and gives the building a horizontal silhoue

18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton

It is this sobriety of material, of color and volume, as well as in the reinterpretation of the architectural vocabulary of the neighboring building - height, expression of horizontality, vertical bays, bi-materiality of the current facades - that we believe is the necessary tribute to the work of Andrault and Parat. The last level, strongly set back, lightens and gives the building a horizontal silhoue.

RAINWATER MANAGEMENT

In order to preserve the high water table, two sunken retention lawns, largely vegetated, have been laid out on either side of the building.


They generate a quality semi-humid landscape and ecologically virtuous, encouraging the development of biodiversity.

18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton

Access to the hall from the street is made through a pathway crossing the water garden.

In order to expose the natural path of rainwater, the balconies and terraces have rectangular barbicans on the edges, equipped with chains that guide rainwater to the two recessed lawns.

Access to the hall from the street is made through a pathway crossing the water garden.

18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton

In order to expose the natural path of rainwater, the balconies and terraces have rectangular barbicans on the edges, equipped with chains that gui.

BIOCLIMATIC HABITAT

The comfort of living is primarily generated by a precise bioclimatic implementation of the apartments. Thus, on each level, four out of five apartments have a double orientation or are crossing.

The only mono-oriented apartment is open to the west. The double-oriented apartments are designed with corner living rooms extended by balconies.

The landings are also designed for living comfort: a large bay window installed in front of the elevator makes it a bright and friendly space conducive to conversation between residents.

18 social housing units in Valenton


18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton


18 social housing units in Valenton

18 social housing units in Valenton
18 social housing units in Valenton

Benjamin Fleury Architect - Urbaniste
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Benjamin Fleury Architect - Urbaniste
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