28 Social Housing Units in Courbevoie, Paris
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28 Social Housing Units in Courbevoie, Paris
Courbevoie Residential Architecture Development in Paris, France – design by Koz architectes
22 Oct 2019
28 Social Housing Units
Architects: Koz architectes
Location: Courbevoie, Paris, France
28 Social Housing Units
In 2007, Groupe 3F and the Courbevoie Town Council launched a competition for a social housing project on the last remaining plot in the urban development zone of Les Fauvelles. The instructions given to the teams were as follows: « the project must present new approaches for social housing in densely occupied urban settings». Our proposal was selected over those offered by SOA Architectes and LAN Architecture.
The right response to the right question
From the start, the exercise involved defining the intrinsic qualities of individual housing, with a view to adapting them to collective living. Four such qualities seemed to us to be essential:
Quality of use
Flexibility is the key strength of individual housing: you do as you please in a house, and you feel fully ?at home?. You can change how you use bedrooms and living areas as your family grows, and depending on the lifestyle and hobbies of each family member: the spare room becomes a nursery when a new child is born, a small bedroom is converted into an office, a growing teenager moves into the bedroom next to the living room because he prefers to be separate f...
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