{"id":44964,"date":"2014-07-03T09:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/eden-bio\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:22:37","slug":"eden-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/eden-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Eden Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

The block of houses is not situated in Haussmannian\u00a0<\/span>Paris with chic boulevards as is the Fouquet\u2019s Barri\u00e8re\u00a0<\/span>that I designed at the same time. Vignoles is situated\u00a0<\/span>in a picturesque and popular neighbourhood. The block\u00a0<\/span>is crossed by narrow alleys a couple of meters wide.\u00a0<\/span>They are a relic of the bygone \u2018\u2019faubourg\u2019\u2019 with its fruit\u00a0<\/span>gardens. The surrounding architecture is of low height and is constituted of bits and pieces, little fragments that have a lot of charm.\u00a0<\/span>An architecture to be lived,\u00a0<\/span>that has never been designed\u00a0<\/span>The program comprises\u00a0<\/span>a hundred new social\u00a0<\/span>appartments and ateliers\u00a0<\/span>for artists, some new\u00a0<\/span>community rooms and a small renovated restaurant.\u00a0<\/span>A specific architecture for\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>a specific context…<\/span>I love indented streets with buildings of differing height\u00a0<\/span>with voids. These absences invite you to discover the\u00a0<\/span>interior of the housing blocks, filled with maisonettes\u00a0<\/span>and rabbit hutches.\u00a0<\/span>The only things added to the street are two greenhouses,\u00a0<\/span>in memory of the historic fruit gardens. They serve as\u00a0<\/span>mailboxes for the residents and must be the smallest street-facing constructions in all\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>of Paris!\u00a0<\/span>The urbanistic approach\u00a0<\/span>of leaving the street frontage\u00a0<\/span>with its original small scale and densifying the center is new <\/span>in town. <\/span>The density of the program <\/span>is situated in the center,\u00a0<\/span>along the original alleys, where maisonettes and buildings with vegetal facades face each other. The materials used are those of the neighbourhood; poor. The ensemble can be seen as a contextual patchwork\u00a0<\/span>made of prefabricated red shingles, timber pillars, zinc, flower pots, copper, whitewash\u00a0<\/span>plaster and coarse concrete left rough.\u00a0<\/span>In this little labyrinth of narrow alleys I don\u2019t want any entry hall or elevator but little city houses with their little gardens. <\/span>Every window has a cantilevered sill made\u00a0<\/span>of Ductal. With this device, from the inside you get the impression of thicker walls. It\u00a0<\/span>can also accommodate flower pots, another of my hobbies… sweet home. <\/span>Every house has its own facade, its own cladding to differentiate it from the others.\u00a0<\/span>The ensemble is held together by a ribbon of red shingles that wraps around it.\u00a0<\/span>Facing the little houses, no more apartment blocks but instead a vegetal curtain veiling\u00a0<\/span>oblique exterior staircases which take you gently to the\u00a0<\/span>sky. Thats all! From there, numerous points of view open onto the heart of the project.<\/span><\/p>\n