Making habitable: from the monumental to the intimate

How to put humans back into a prefabricated office architecture?

How to offer each inhabitant individuality from the repetitive facade of the 1970s?

How to turn a thick office building into personalized housing? 

Here, the place is strategic: to the south, on the Quai des Carrières, the highway A4 and its noise very high, but also beautiful distant views of the Seine.

In the North, the heart of islet, with its views on the villa Bergerac.

The transformation keeps the spirit of the place while optimizing the qualities of living, between distant views and domesticity of the heart of islet.

The two orientations of the building thus offer two ways of living. Côté Quai, individual vegetated loggias with views of the distance and, in the heart of the island, in the privacy of a garden on courtyard.

From the repetitive to the individual: the loggias on the Quai des Carrières

To house the building, the facade of the Carrières quay, 260 meters long and oriented to the South, is redesigned.

Prefabricated concrete models are retained and existing windows are removed.