{"id":44887,"date":"2014-07-03T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/zac-massena-social-housing\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T18:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:18:55","slug":"zac-massena-social-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/zac-massena-social-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAC Mass\u00e9na social housing"},"content":{"rendered":"

This project is not an isolated architectural mission, <\/span>it contributes to the urban ambitions of the <\/span>Mass\u00e9na district in the <\/span>13th arrondissement of Paris. Each new construction is an additional milestone in the extension of this \u201d3rd age\u201d town.\u00a0<\/span>Based on the principles designed by Christian de Portzamparc, the project emerges, develops, takes shape to enhance its simplicity with its own specific elegance.\u00a0<\/span>The facade overlooking the street extends in strict alignment like a cheesewire. The overhangs, the recesses, the compositions of terraces and a crevasse structure the expression of the blocks forming this architectural complex, allowing the neighbouring buildings to benefit from the \u201dopen island hub\u201d of the development plan.\u00a0<\/span>At the crossroads of the various traffic axes, this minimal structure imposes its inertia through its deep and sombre bulk. Self-compacting coloured concrete adds a finishing touch to the corners, enhances the beauty of the canvas formed by the windows, the majesty\u00a0<\/span>of the design and its pure lines. The large glazed facades of the ground floor confer an impression of immateriality, the structure remains absent from this composition and a large hollow joint which accommodates the solar protection of the future occupants bestows a certain sense of levitation on the various volumes.\u00a0<\/span>The facades unfold like a large graphic composition, generous and scaleless. The notion of floor levels is concealed, the rhythms of the openings are systematic and surprising.\u00a0<\/span>The inside is echoed by precise, nearby or far-off frames, profiting from the panoramas offered by\u00a0<\/span>eastern Paris.\u00a0<\/span>As delicate as a butterfly wing, a metal tape running between the various volumes creates a special atmosphere catching the light, the reflections. The building is reflected and reflects a tone, a luminous spectrum. Time is on stage.\u00a0<\/span>Ornamentation is banned and the omnipresent nature springs unexpectedly from the roofs of the various volumes, with an abundance of plants and trees.\u00a0<\/span>Passers-by dream when looking up towards these accessible terraces which form this new \u2019green\u2019 Paris, close to the river Seine and large cultural and educational infrastructures.\u00a0<\/span>Rejecting the limitations of style and representation archetypes, this building suggests a critical architecture, whose modernity is essential for a new regulated urbanity in an open, generous, ecological and social metropolis.<\/span><\/p>\n