Access to each housing unit is an individual promenade that starts in the main hall, open to the semi-private garden, according to a layout inspired by the ones often found in Parisian apartment buildings dating from the 1960s and 70s – the golden age for such constructions. Each housing unit is appointed with an individual loggia, whose variable depth is calculated to allow occupants their legitimate degree of privacy. On the ground floor, metal mesh filters the light to avoid disturbing the practice of sports, reduced to the exposure of sports practitioners and dancers to the view of passersby.
Less, Paris
Program: housing
Architect: AAVP Architecture
Design team: Vincent Parreira, Marie Brodin, Nicolas Fontaine-Descambres, Lara Ferrer
Structural engineering: EVP
Installation: Louis Choulet
Landscape: Atelier Roberta
Completion: 2016