{"id":12447,"date":"2021-11-09T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T12:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/?p=12447"},"modified":"2021-11-09T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T12:59:05","slug":"wood-is-for-apartment-buildings-mars-architects-an-environmentally-conscious-apartment-block-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/wood-is-for-apartment-buildings-mars-architects-an-environmentally-conscious-apartment-block-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood is for Apartment Buildings. MARS Architects: An environmentally conscious apartment block in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The project makes it possible to completely renew the site, and on a more global level, to think about collective housing and the environmental approach to it. Both employed on this plot to create a new urban pattern that may generate of good quality and sustainable development. <\/p>\n

Project, text: MARS architectes<\/strong>
\nPhotography: Charly Broyez<\/strong><\/p>\n

We were appointed by GECINA in 2012 to research all their Parisian property and identify the areas that could now be densified according to recent changes made to the local urbanization plan of Paris and to new French urbanization laws. This project is part of that study.
\nIt was finished in October 2020, and is located in the twelfth district of Paris, on the Avenue de Saint Mandé, in the heart of a building block, surrounded by an apartment complex from the 1970s.<\/p>\n

One might catch a glimpse of the hidden Paris when wondering its streets when a partially opened door unveils an unexpected richness, a calm and peaceful atmosphere, precious and vegetal, which gives a particular relish to the hearts of Parisian blocks.<\/p>\n

This surprise, the poetry of these concealed urban spaces is the core of the project.<\/p>\n

Through the main entrance of the residence, we get a glimpse at an unusual and inviting vegetal density. In opposition with the street, the inward courtyard unveils a garden full of ferns, ground-covering plants, and resinous trees, like a transition between two universes: the urban and the private.<\/p>\n

At the end of a path weaving through the undergrowth the project can be found: a rigorously structured wooden building, evoking Japanese temples, and interpreting classic modernism.<\/p>\n

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The balconies protect the shutters and the woodwork from bad weather. The endings of the horizontal structural elements that face rain and snow are protected with white paint, the serial dots thus also conferring rhythm to the facade.<\/p>\n

The rhythm, the expression of the structure of balconies, the choice to keep the assemblies visible and the sliding panels system merge as a simple, strong, and original architectural style, totally in osmosis with the garden.<\/p>\n

The entrance of the building is signalled by a canopy. Its white colour generates contrast against the wooden background of the façade. This is not just an entrance, but a passage that allows the pathway to cross the building and lead to a secret place, totally an entirely white courtyard of intimate dimensions. This space is shared by all the inhabitants gives access to the dwellings through open footbridges.<\/p>\n

From this succession of ambiances emerges the quality of dwelling. Going home is an interval, a fundamental point in the positive perception of a home, a hinge point where the necessary detachment between the intimate and the outside world takes place.<\/p>\n

We wanted the project to be an example of usage and of environmental response in accordance with current concerns: quality housing (light, atmosphere, materials) and frugality in terms of construction and energy consumption.<\/p>\n

The choice of an open gallery made it possible to design flats with a double exposure, thus allowing space expansion, the elimination of corridors as well as simple and effective natural ventilation.<\/p>\n

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