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The urban fabric of Belleville is composed of two intersecting systems: on the one hand narrow busy roads lined with typical “faubourg”-style apartment buildings cascading down the hill.
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On the other the spaces at the centres of the city blocks, which are very narrow, often planted, and lined with vernacular buildings running perpendicular to the slope.
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We wanted to restore this double-sided character on the Rue de Belleville with a design that plays the density, piling and stratification games through a contemporary design revisiting the traditional faubourg housing type.
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The heart of the block is a green alley that harmonizes with the existing fabric and reveals the depth of the plot. Box-balconies stretch from the facade to offer generous outdoor spaces and wide and unobstructed views of Paris.
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A new building that infiltrate the urban jungle while claiming a significant change: exit insalubrity, the density is here mastered and happy. Source by Atelier du Pont-
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- Location: Belleville street, 75020 Paris, France
- Architect: Atelier du Pont
- Project manager: Luc Pinsard
- Structure engineering: EVP
- Fluids engineering: Delta
- Construction economics: Axio
- Sustainable engineering: Plan02
- Sustainable performance: RT2005 – ‘Plan Climat de Paris’ (50 kWhEP/sqm/year) – H&E Profil A option BBC
- Client: Elogie – Siemp
- Program: Construction of 19 social housing units and 1 shop
- Surface: 1,257 m2
- Cost: 3,000,000 € (pre-tax)
- Year: 2018
- Photographs: Takuji Shimmura, Courtesy of Atelier du Pont
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