Architects:Explorations Architecture

Area :5846 m²

Year :2020

Photographs :Salem Mostefaoui

Lead Architect :Benoît Le Thierry d'Ennequin

Architect, Project Director : Claudia Trovati

Architect, Assistant : Charles Eliot Meyer

Architect : Lamine Ben Hibet

Landscape Architects : Marti Baron

Landscape Architects : Marti Baron

Technical Consultants : OTE

City : Paris

Country : France

The Habib Bourguiba Hall is the second student residence built by the Fondation de la Maison de Tunisie, which is funded by the Tunisian government. Located in the mythic leafy grounds of Paris’s Cité Internationale Universitaire — a unique concentration of cultures, nature, and architecture —, it allows the foundation to double the number of students it can accommodate.

Our project’s organic form surmounts the difficulties of a site that is very exposed, not only to the elements but also to noise and the gaze. Its external envelope, which protects and unites, is at once a filter and a work of art, a calligraphic abstraction signifying the country it represents, Tunisia.