Farshid Moussavi Architecture just announced to have won
Housing for Les Jardins de l'Arche Competition.
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| Housing for Les Jardins de l'Arche, La Défense, France © Farshid Moussavi Architecture |
The 11,430 square-meter building design explores various questions such as the articulation of programms — shops, residencial units and student accommodations—, site conditions, to quote but a few. The ground floor will host shops. The three first floors will be dedicated to student accommodations; and the residential units will occupy the other floors, that is: 7,500 square-meter of residential units, 2,930 square-meter of student accommodation and 1,000 square-meter of retail space.
The building will be implanted in Les Jardins de l'Arche site, a site situated near La Defense in the East, les Groues and le Faubourg de l'Arche in the North, le Parc André Malraux in the South, les Terrasses that links the area to the Seine river in the West.
It is part of a large urban renewal project that include La Defense and Les Terrasses de Nanterre as well as the new Arena Stadium and a Hotel.
Another aspect of this project is the building on its own, say, its design. Floors, all rectangular in form, will be each slightly rotated by two degrees from the one below.
This strategy, indeed, will facilitate the integration of balconies so that residents will profit from the spectacular external views. The balconies aside, this strategy allows for natural light in some parts and shade in other parts.
A question that poses this building design concerns the programmatic articulation that is treated vertically, such as layers.
Conceived first for the residents, each program coexists easily with the other one. Hence the rotation of the floors?
The construction is announced to be completed by 2014
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