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a multitude of habitable situations
The 75S project is dedicated to social housing, and is distinguished by its incomparable openness to the landscape, facing the largest still exploited agricultural area in the inner suburbs. Inspired by the old market gardening fabric of the plain, the geometry of the island invites you to compose following an organisation in strips. From an urban point of view, the project intends to conclude a series of large buildings with an architecture of angle, a signal in contact with the avenue of Stalingrad. The strategical position of this event, at the crossroads of a metropolitan park and a structuring axis thus questions the very identity of the new district: it should symbolically bear witness to a new way of living the territory of Saint Denis in a close relationship to the views and nature. Highlighted by the vastness of the landscape in front of which it faces (this complex will be seen in particular from the Saint-Denis University metro exit), the project displays the developer’s ambition: against the backdrop of a certain banality reflected in the large complexes located nearby, it inspires variety, hospitality, delicacy, elegance and slenderness.
Even today, the surrounding area still bears picturesque traces of the history of market gardening, small, singular heritages that have marked the identity of the plain: composite masonry walls, brick canopies crowned with cisterns, small isolated buildings whose architectural codes are reminiscent of the suburban town. It was important for us to pursue this poetic and sensitive thread through the materiality of the project, so that the architecture would fully belong to the territory of Saint-Denis. The materials used are in keeping with this mineral tradition: they are limited in number, blond and light. The ensemble takes on natural hues, in full mass, whose multiplication of small elements, the bricks, aims to install a human dimension.
In a play of tiers, the architecture suggests multiple inhabited situations. It proposes different ways of living depending on the height and the exhibitions. The challenge of this major project is part of an obvious paradox: its relative monumentality must not dissolve the domestic dimension of the habitats.
The windows are large, on the scale of these tall buildings, they express the very interest of living high up in front of a park where there is no opposite: the extraordinary openness to the views. Some of the openings have real bay windows, in a design that evokes the imagination of the workshop or the agricultural greenhouse.

program 86 social social housings and shops client Logirep area 7 200m² cost 11.7M€ HT work full service phase currently in conception process label RT 2012 - 20%