Playtime 1 公寓设计

Architect：B plus C architectes

Location：Avenue du General de Gaulle, Tremblay-en-France, France

Project Year：2019

Category：Social Housing

Context

The project is located south of the Canal de l'Ourcq and the RER line B in a very residential area in which different scales coexist: from the residential dwellings, to villas and small individual houses, to the adjoining “Jacques Tati.

It is a very heterogeneous fragmented fabric, with the strong presence of green spaces, with alternating alignments on street, built fronts, setbacks, and the presence of residential front gardens.

At the same time all this "holds" in the sense that a clear, "structuring" street network accompanies a mutation that is evident along the two north-south axes:

·         West, the Charles de Gaulle Avenue is clearly evolving towards a more urban identity because of its role as the main axis between north and south, RD44 and National 3, with the presence in its northern part of shops and public facilities

·         East, rue de Picardie evolves towards a more residential atmosphere, more open, with alternating solids and voids

At the time of the urban "sprawl" and wild spreading out of the city and its dilution into an undifferentiated whole, the challenge is that of making these two "universes" coexist in the same volume, the mineral and urban on the "street" side and that of the green landscape on the courtyard side.

For this it is necessary to go beyond any traditional notion of typology (from the urban building to the townhouse to the pavilion), and instead to put into place a hybridization of programs.

And this not only in terms of form and image but above all in terms of uses: how to combine the benefits of high density living (and its fabric of relationships, exchanges, interdependencies of which a city is made) with the benefits of "living in the countryside" (the relationship with nature and energy and food self-sufficiency).

Concept

In terms of architectural vocabulary, the choice was made to create a “bi-frontal” architecture characterized by:

·         on the street side, a homogeneous frontage with open rain screen cladding in aluminum profiles.

This lightweight screen reveals in transparency alternating game of “plain and voids” revealing the loggias set back and protected by the rain screen resulting in a dynamic and vibrating façade.

On the upper level, the building dematerializes; the cladding becomes wind screen masking the technical equipment on the roof.

·         on the garden side, a fragmented and deconstructed facade, characterized by large terraces which follow a cascading profile decreasing from the lower to upper levels and fitted with sliding shades allowing for a more intimate shelter.

Each terrace is provided with inbuilt storage and is treated as a real additional “living space” to the dwelling, accessible from the living room, kitchen and where possible from the bedrooms.

Each tenant can “personalize” their terrace, according to his or her needs, choose its use along the seasons and contribute in this way to the construction of the dwelling «in his image and resemblance» within the overall building envelope.

Organization of the dwellings and ground floor

The ground floor plan takes into account the following constraints:

·         direct access from the street to cycle/pram secured spaces and to the refuse areas

·         direct access from the street to the newly created double height volume dedicated to the extension of the adjoining Jacques Tati cinema, which will include new entrance hall, ticket office and administration on the mezzanine

The different dwelling types are organized along the following fundamental principles: 

·         the 3 bed apartments all benefit from a double orientation and naturally lit kitchens

·         the smaller apartments benefit from large combined kitchen/living spaces. The dwellings located on the street side are planned with loggias protected on the upper levels by top-hung opening shutters and on the ground floor by sliding shutters that also act as “brise-soleil”

·         the number of flats accessible from each landing is limited to a maximum of 4

·         the entrance hall inside the dwellings are conceived as a real “articulation” spaces separating “night” zones from the “day” rooms.

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