The residential development is located in the eco-neighborhood Zac de la Marine, in the French town of Colombes and was finished in Its aim is to increase the complexity of the district relations through walking away from the traditional types of housing in its 72 apartments. Halfway between the architectural type of open block and detached family home, the residential complex designed LAN Architecture can accommodate a wide variety of apartments intended for different potential residents.
These new occupants will generate new urban dynamics in the city. This heterogeneity of spaces is achieved through a construction system based on a few constructive elements allow flexibility: concrete frames and wooden surround.
This flexibility has been the key factor in the development of the project, as appears from the very organization of the apartments to the possible configurations facade, making it possible gradar levels inside intimacy. Description of the project by LAN Architecture.
Ideally, we had to be able to respond to universal housing needs, and propose different types of units in order to favour and create mixity and generational confrontation. From the plan to the facade, our proposition is a superimposition of different typologies, diverse in the size of the spaces, the relationship between the apartment and its exterior and the way in which each room is lived in.
The volumes we arrived at are very flexible. This diversity reflects our modern, democratic society, but also represents an interesting commercial posture in that stimulates curiosity between neighbours and therefore avoids depersonalisation. In construction terms, the words diversity, variety and morphology are often equated with increased construction costs. There is some truth in this, and when one explores this path one has to be extremely vigilant.
