63 Housing Units For The Bastide-niel Urban Development

English description provided by the architects.

The Garonne River divides Bordeaux's urban fabric in two, and its right bank has lagged somewhat in terms of its development.

The city's analysis of the program for this zone has impelled it to provide optimal, comfortable, and durable spaces for this new neighborhood. It has also sought to enhance existing industrial heritage and, thus, to preserve the identity of this area.

We created a symbiosis between existing walls, which we highlighted, and the new buildings inserted within them, as an architectural version of a Russian doll.

The layout of those blocks and the treatment of the common areas help recreate a neighbourhood atmosphere within an ambitious landscaping scheme extending across the entire development zone.

The housing provides generous volumes and views of the entire area, as well as large open terraces.

The chamfered sections are clad in a stone-tinted ceramic along the facade, and in a coloured stone-tinted concrete for the walls.

Vestiges of the volumes of existing buildings have been represented in the face through the use of a smooth, concrete tinted in grey.