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The project that RATP has entrusted to us consists of the realization of 2 housing buildings imbricated with a bus center.
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In a specific and referenced work based on emblematic Parisian operations (Eugène Beaudoin and Marcel Lods: Atlas passage, Henri Sauvage: Vavin street), the 1st building of our operation implanted rue Père Corentin presents a stepped facade combined with terraces.
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Designed to receive a generous vegetation and solve the wide gap existing between the buildings that surround it: a R+2 Mansart-type pavilion and a R+12 building resulting from the modernity.
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This graduation work opens this narrow street to the sky and desaturates its noisy ambiance.
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The 2nd building, in the heart of the block, is sculpted by the basic requirements of urban courtesy.
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The volume is compact, gathered under a huge roof. The morphology of the work is thus composed of edges and inclined faces which erase its presence as the construction rises.
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The volume is dense with a shift of its mass from west to east expressing a slight balance where the center of gravity is almost outside the volume.
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Covered with a unifying anthracite gray zinc skin, this monolith sounds like a dense smooth boulder protected from the tumult of the city and yet widely open to the city.
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Hyper-contextual, ultra-specific, the project modeled by the constraints of the site, is a link between two urban territories, mixing the intensity of the city and an endless green lung suspended in the sky of Paris. Source by ECDM architects.
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- Location: 71-73 rue du Père Corentin, 75014 Paris, France
- Architect: ECDM architects
- Project Managers: Kikyun Kim, Benjamin Ferrer
- Client: RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens)
- Program: housing, offices, nursery and RATP bus center
- Surface Area: 6 560 m2 HON
- Cost: € 11 million excluding taxes
- Year: 2017
- Photographs: Benoît Fougeirol, Salem Mostefaoui, Courtesy of ECDM architects
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