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architect: emmanuel colboc and herve dubois. reenie worked on the design team at competition stage
building type+location: apartment building, crèche and shops, bercy, paris 13th arrondissement
invisible elements:

  1. a mix of rented social housing, shared ownership and private apartments (that are genuinely ‘affordable’ for regular citizens!) engenders a rich social mix. this strategy successfully avoids the formation of separate residential ghettos for rich and poor, and has been implemented in parisian housing since hausmanns apartment buildings of 19th century.
  2. the corbusian tradition is alive and kicking in contemporary french architecture – here we revisited the cruise liner aesthetic (le paquebot)
  3. publicly funded projects in paris must be offered as architectural competitions, allowing younger architects a chance to land challenging and exciting commissions.

client: ville de paris
completion date: 1998