The construction of the housing project located 45 Louis Blanc Street in the 10th quarter of Paris is the result of a project launched in 1998 by the Paris city real-estate authority. The property developer was expected to take a piece of land measuring 550 m² and replace an abandoned squat there which had been slotted for demolition with a low-cost building proposing 13 apartments (program specifications), that adhered to the HQE (High Environmental Quality) standards still being determined at the time.

The project is sculpted like a piece of a puzzle, responding exactly to the urban constrains and solicitations of the context. It proposes an unusual typology for the Parisian standards which frees the ground floor to propose on the ground level a landscaped parking, adequate with a small plot, above which 17 apartments seem to float. It ensures a chain reaction -> Minimization of the parking print (suppression of the ramp) -> optimization of the realization planning: minus 3 months -> Optimization of the budget: 15% -> Redefinition of the project economy -> and so on…

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 29th, 2009 at 11:23 pm and is filed under Hill House. Tags: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec, France, High Environmental Quality, Louis Blanc Social Housing, Louis Blanc Street, Minimization of the parking print, Paris, Paris city real-estate authority, Parisian standards, piece of a puzzle, Redefinition of the project economy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.