Residential Strategies 

Location: Rue de Rigoles, Paris, France
Duration: Yr 2 Semester 2
Project Type: Apartment Complex

Medium: Digital, handrawn, handmade & digital models

The design is situated in an idea of carving, the built form created via interpreting the surrounding access routes as tributaries, eroding the form out of an existing mass. The relationship between the building and the surrounding context is therefore influenced by this form, in its final case encouraging the creation of public space by pedestrianising one of the vehicle access routes. The programmatic layout of the building is heavily reliant on the study of the Unite, with a clear definition between private and public, served vs servant and circulation vs static. The Unite provided a concept of a fixed module, present in each apartment, which contains all services and storage for the inhabitant. This module contains a sub service core which allows a 2m twist in the plan as the building rises.

There is an emphasis on the attention to the experiential qualities of architecture, focusing on material application and articulation and spatial composition in the pursuit of achieving defined thresholds between the various levels of private and public. This is used internally, with each apartment using different floor textures to define certain areas within the apartment