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(Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, France) |
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Situated at the heart of a housing scheme and linked by a narrow lane to the main road, the social housing development containing 66 apartments does not comply with the traditional requirements of urban logic such as alignment or the proposal of open spaces.
On the contrary, the project openly states its ties with the surrounding landscape and geographic structures (orientation, geometry of the site, “destructured” built environment).
The building deliberately turns its back on the North, on the city and the wind and the rain, opening out to the South, accompanying in its geometry the course of the stream that flows across the site. The roof structure forms a protective shell, its sunscreens sheltering the balconies and the plywood facades of the duplex apartments. The building raises its buttresses from the clayey soil, its ramparts protecting the last remaining urban agricultural fields.
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