Dwellings in Paris by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal II
12/04/2013.
By Druot, Lacaton & Vassal. [PAR] France
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA
We want to share with you more information of the project Dwellings in Paris by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal, published in METALOCUS a year ago. We emphasize the importance of the performance, in it they notably improve an apartment building damaged by the passage of time. A proposal materialized taking into account the energy management and sustainable development intelligently. It is an example that should follow some buildings in the world to improve and to highlight the architectural essence of the buildings.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Floor 16, balcony, birds coop, flowers. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Evolution of Tower Bois le Prêtre. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 3 rooms dwelling, winter-garden and balcony. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 6 rooms dwelling, winter-garden and balcony. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 6 rooms dwelling, winter-garden and balcony. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Floor 16, 4 rooms dwelling, heated extension, living-room. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 3 rooms dwelling, living room. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Apartment metamorphosis, winter-garden, West side. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Bedroom. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 4 rooms dwelling, living room. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 3 rooms dwelling, dinning room. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 3 rooms dwelling, living room. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Floor 16, 2 rooms duplex dwelling. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 3 rooms dwelling, bedroom. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Floor 16, 2 rooms duplex dwelling, winter-garden and balcony. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Apartment metamorphosis, Linving room and new outside view. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 3 rooms dwelling, winter-garden and balcony. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. 5 rooms dwelling, living room. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Heated extension and balcony. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation: Metamorphosis of Existing Situations. Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Click above to see larger image.
Example dwelling T5 in the southwest corner, typology 5. Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.
Example dwelling T5/6 at the northeast corner, typology 6. Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.
Example dwelling T5/6 on the southeast corner, typology 7. Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.
Longitudinal section, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.
Cross section, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.
East elevation, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.
North elevation, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.
West elevation, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.
Elevation south, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.Elevation south, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal.
Constructive detail, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Click above to see larger image.
Chaining construction, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Click above to see larger image.
Constructive detail, Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Click above to see larger image.
Energy Saving: Winter garden, Space, Comfort, Light and Temperature Control. Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Click above to see larger image.
Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Floor 16, balcony, south facade. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture.
Memory of project
The project of metamorphosis of the “Bois Le Prêtre” Tower consists in a radical transformation of the conditions of comfort and habitability of the 100 residences of the occupied building. The tower built in 1962 by the architect Raymond Lopez, develops on 50m height, 16 levels serving each one 4 or 8 residences. By addition of heated extensions, winter-gardens and balconies, the overall surface of origin of 8900 m² is carried to 12460 m². This new organization of surfaces and the precise technical improvements make it possible to adapt the rental offer while meeting by the creation of new typologies the needs for the families, to return lime pit foot the access to all the residences, to reduce passively, the consumption of energies of more than 50%, mainly by the addition of the winter-gardens.
Principle of metamorphosis.
The existing structures are preserved, the bays are opened, the prefabricated balconies of three depth meters are piled up and juxtaposed with the existing frontages, the interiors are adapted to the rental needs, the consumption of energies is reduced at least of 50%, in particular thanks to the passive energy management of the winter-gardens. The basic calculation of the rents is preserved. The surface of the winter-gardens is near 25m² for each 42m² of existing housing.
Each dwelling is augmented by large balconies and winter gardens. Moreover, all the building has benefit from extended living spaces with heated surface areas on the north and south gable-end. These additional areas respond to the resident families needs, especially linked to over-occupancy of dwellings. In consequence the project creates four new typologies of residences.
Tenants of Bois le Prêtre still live in during the renovation. A special care is guaranteed for each family, they can stay in their own residence. Otherwise they can occupied a bigger or smaller one according to their requirements. Moreover each family have the possibility to move in the building in order to discover a new point of view and position. Every dwelling received new electrical fittings, new sanitary facilities and new ventilation system. The interior layout and design can be preserved according to the occupant wishes or removed or adapted between a various choices of finishing touches and partitioning.
For each dwelling this additional winter-garden is a significant benefit for fluidity of living spaces, natural light, superficies and energy savings. The thermal performance of winter garden is more efficient than a classic heat wall isolation. The way those winter gardens work is very simple, domestic, without much sophisticated technology. It is made by four types of mobile screens. From the outside to inside there is:
- Sliding translucent or transparent shutters, no airtightness.
- Solar shading curtains on rail, associate to sliding shutters.
- Sliding bay-windows high-performance, placed in line with the old facade.
- Energy curtains made up of Mylar reflexive sheet (= same material of survival blanket), a layer of sheep wool and a decorative fabric.
The consumption of embodied-energy used for the Tower Bois le Prêtre execution is minimal if it is compared with the energy used in demolition/reconstruction project (about + 480%) or a new construction (about +230%). The metamorphosis choice is first and foremost about the quality of dwelling, area, space capacity and possibility: bigger, more luminous, easier for living. Besides it is an ecological choice with high consequences on energy management and sustainable development. It is a global economic choice because the cost of the building transformation is 40 to 75 % lower than the cost of a new construction.
Text.- Frédéric Druot Architecture.
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Architects
Frédéric Druot Architecture and Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal.
Collaboration team
INEX (studies medium), VP Green (structural engineering), E2I (economy). Gui Jourdan (acoustics), Vulcanéo (fire safety and accessibility), BATSCOP.
Client
Paris Habitat.
Surface
12,460 m² (8900 m² available).
Budget
11.2 M €.
Date
October 2011.
Site
Paris 17º, Tour Bois le Prêtre. Paris, France.
Awards
Award Winner Equerre D’Argent 2011.
Anne Lacaton - Jean-Philippe Vassal. Lacaton and Vassal
Lacaton & Vassal. Anne Lacaton and Jean Phillippe Vassal created the office in 1989, based in Paris. The office has a practice in France, as well as abroad, working on various buildings and urban planning programs.
Anne LACATON was born in France in 1955. She graduated from the School of architecture of Bordeaux in 1980, and got a diploma in Urban Planning at the university of Bordeaux in 1984. She is teaching as a visiting professor at the University of Madrid since 2007, and was invited in 2011 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne, as well as in Harvard GSD Studio in Paris in 2011.
Jean Philippe VASSAL was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1954. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Bordeaux in 1980. He worked as an urban planner in Niger from 1980 to 1985. He is professor at UdK Berlin since 2012, and has been a visiting professor at the TU in Berlin in 2007-2010, and at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne in 2010-11.
Main Awards, the Grand Prix National d’Architecture, France, 2008, the Rolf Schock Prize, visual arts category, Sweden 2014, the Daylight & Building Components Award, Velum Fonden, Denmark, 2011, and the International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2009, the Equerre d'Argent award 2011, with Frédéric Druot, France. Their work has been shortlisted several times and twice finalist for the Mies Van der Rohe Award, European Prize for Contemporary Architecture.
The main works completed by the office are: the FRAC, Public Contemporary Art Collection, in Dunkerque, France; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Site for contemporary creation ; social housing and student housing in Paris ; a music and polyvalent hall in Lille ; the Café for the Architektur Zentrum in Vienna ; a School for Business and Management in Bordeaux ; the Architecture school in Nantes, and significant housing projects in France such as the House Latapie, Bordeaux ; the House in the trees, facing Arcachon Bay, the "Cité Manifeste" in Mulhouse. They are now working on the transformation of modernist social housing : the Transformation of Tour Bois le Prêtre in Paris (with Frédéric Druot, architect), in St Nazaire la Chesnaie and in Bordeaux Grand Parc (with F Druot and Ch. Hutin, architects). All these projects are based on a principle of generosity and economy, serving the life, the uses and the appropriation, with the aim of changing the standard.
FRÉDÉRIC DRUOT
Frédéric Druot was born on January, 31st 1958 in Bordeaux, France. He is a DPLG Architect, graduate from the Bordeaux School of Architecture in 1984. In Bordeaux, 1987, he established in association with 4 architects the architecture agency Epinard Bleu (Blue Spinach) that has been considered a front line for the French architecture of the 90’s and won the award: "Album de la Jeune Architecture." In 1991, he opened his own agency Frédéric Druot Architecture (FDA) in Paris.
The work philosophy is based on the topic of thought and scales studies are not limited and it subsists a multi disciplinary dialogue. Design, music, mode, urban design, architecture and landscape open a path of research and guide the reflection around the project idea. The problematic of housing and urban design are currently representative of the main activity of the agency. There is a particular preoccupation and care to existing situations. The economy represents a guideline in the conception and the control of architecture projects.
Awards.-
- Winner, Equerre d’argent, Le Moniteur Award 2011, Paris, for the project “Tour Bois le Prêtre”, (Social housing tower), in Paris, November 2011.
- Winner, Sustainability and Residential Innovation Award 2006, City of Madrid, for the project “Tour Bois le Prêtre”, (Social housing tower), in Paris.
- Winner, Album de la Jeune Architecture Award, 1990, France.
