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Housing Érard Paris

In order to integrate this new building into its environment, particularly with regards the two low adjoining buildings, we broke down its massing and made it less compact. The 6th and 8th floors step back incrementally from the street-front and west facades to form two upper-level superimposed volumes, benefitting from their west-facing aspect. The five first levels benefit from balconies that cantilever 1 metre out over the street and participate in the overall composition of the volumes, where each section reveals a different type of apartment. The accessible exterior spaces – balconies and terraces – provide both efficient sun-screening and privacy from the neighbours. They reinforce the coherence and identity of the ensemble, while lightening its mass.
We proposed an innovative building system to minimise the use of concrete and thus the resultant environmental disruption from the site. Above all, the practice was adamant that the building should be made as flexible as possible to meet the future, anticipating the obsolescence of the envelope and changes in the building's use. The structure is formed of a reinforced concrete frame with the core providing lateral stability. The facade, in lightweight timber panels, can easily be modified or replaced in the long term.

Location
Rue Érard, Paris 12
Programme
27 new housing units for first-time buyers, 1 retail unit
Client
Emerige
Team
Hardel Le Bihan Architects (Renaud Pinet team leader), EVP (structure), Silva Conseil (timber construction), MCH (MEP), MOX (executive architect)
Surface area
2 000 m²
Cost
3,5 M€
Calendar
Completed in may 2019. Competition 2015
Materials
Timber panels (facade frames integrate insulation), reinforced concrete (posts, beams, floor slabs)
Certification
H&E 2012
Architectural team
Project manager(s)
Renaud Pinet (conception, site)
Architects
Pascaline Gasc (conception)
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