Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
17/09/2018.
[PAR] France
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Very compact, the building is elongated by studied use of a second, lightweight skin that highlights its verticality.
Exterior view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Exterior view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Exterior view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Exterior view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Facade view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Exterior view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Terrace view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Terrace view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Interior view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Terrace view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Interior view. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Photograph by ©Schnepp Renou
Site plan. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Courtesy by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
Plans. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Courtesy by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
Sections. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Courtesy by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
Facade details. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Courtesy by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
Axonometric. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Courtesy by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
Axonometric. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Courtesy by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
Axonometric. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Courtesy by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
Construction details. Croisset Social Housing in Paris by Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Courtesy by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
A short distance from the Clignancourt university campus, this building of 63 housing units designed by the French architectural firm Hardel Le Bihan Architects, is part of a complex, consisting of two apartment buildings and a university cafeteria.
The building is presented with an interesting pristine, white image, with balconies that activate the façade and that generate an interesting dynamism, without losing rotundity.
The building is presented with an interesting pristine, white image, with balconies that activate the façade and that generate an interesting dynamism, without losing rotundity.
Description of project by Hardel Le Bihan Architects
The massing, arranged to ensureporosity from north to south, allows the sun through onto the tree-lined Rue de Croisset.In creating a large, south-facing open area at the middle of the development and a meadow on the roof of the restaurant, we were seeking to adhere to the original spirit of the greenbelt, which is now undergoing extreme densification.
Compactness, slit, cut at an angle on the corner of the site, our project gives a new reading of the architectural language of the surrounding buildings of low-cost housing in order to improve urban comfort, optimise living space and provide higher levels of glazing in the facades.Very compact, the building is elongated by studied use of a second, lightweight skin that highlights its verticality.
Following aesthetic principles based on how things are used, a network of balconies, seemingly random through its play of single and double heights, is orchestrated on the very rational grid of floor plans. This alternating arrangement enlivens the facades, allows maximum sunlight into the apartments and rationalises the surfaces of the balconies.
On the garden side, the textured concrete gives a relief to the otherwise flat facade through a play of shadow and light. Its unevenness echoes the network motif of the road-side facades.
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Architects
Hardel Le Bihan Architects. Project leader.- Pascaline Gasc
Project Team
Le Penhuel& Associates.- mandatory architect: 40 housing units and university cafeteria. ID+.- engineers. RFR Elements.- sustainability. Fayat.-
general contractor
Client
Paris Habitat
Program
63 social-housing units, shops, parking for 53 cars (part of a 103 housing units programme)
Area
9,070 m² GIA (on a total of 9.070 m² GIA)
Cost
18,6 M€ (global)
Dates
Completion.- April 2018
Venue
Rue Francis de Croisset, Paris (18). Paris, France.
Mathurin Hardel and Cyrille Le Bihan. Hardel Le Bihan Architectes
Mathurin Hardel and Cyrille Le Bihan
Founded in 2006 by Mathurin Hardel et Cyrille Le Bihan, the practice today numbers some 30 architects. The team is based in central Paris. Each project is seen as an occasion to develop specific innovations as far as possible (structure, materials, facades, uses ...), with architectural restraint balanced with an attention to each detail.
Hardel Le Bihan has built about 20 projects, with as many again currently on site or at study phase. Projects of all types and scales within the urban fabric: apartments and private houses, office buildings, cultural amenities and university buildings, hotels, schools and nurseries. Headquarters for companies Klésia and PAP in Paris, the Étoile Lilas multiplex cinema, student residences in Dakar, social housing ... The studio's work, a mixture of public and private commissions, is based on a rational and sensitive design process, with a particular interest in how the projects will be used. Radical in its desire to create buildings that are timeless, the practice gives as much importance to the immediate appropriation of a site as to its evolution over time, because architecture must support and accompany changes of use, integrating innovation into the structure itself of the spaces, before accommodating technical means and technological equipment, which themselves will evolve continuously.
In 2017, as part of the Nouvelle AOM collective (Franklin Azzi Architecture, ChartierDalix, Hardel Le Bihan), the practice won the competition for the new Montparnasse Tower in the centre of Paris.
Hardel Le Bihan has built about 20 projects, with as many again currently on site or at study phase. Projects of all types and scales within the urban fabric: apartments and private houses, office buildings, cultural amenities and university buildings, hotels, schools and nurseries. Headquarters for companies Klésia and PAP in Paris, the Étoile Lilas multiplex cinema, student residences in Dakar, social housing ... The studio's work, a mixture of public and private commissions, is based on a rational and sensitive design process, with a particular interest in how the projects will be used. Radical in its desire to create buildings that are timeless, the practice gives as much importance to the immediate appropriation of a site as to its evolution over time, because architecture must support and accompany changes of use, integrating innovation into the structure itself of the spaces, before accommodating technical means and technological equipment, which themselves will evolve continuously.
In 2017, as part of the Nouvelle AOM collective (Franklin Azzi Architecture, ChartierDalix, Hardel Le Bihan), the practice won the competition for the new Montparnasse Tower in the centre of Paris.
