LE PARTI PRIS URBAIN

In the future it will represent a new centrality for Carrières-sous-Poissy, featuring residential and mixed-activity programmes (retail, Leclerc shopping centre, cinema, shops). The geometry of the parcel L11’ moulds to the new, irregular, almost romantic road system, which is rare enough to deserve a mention; this choice of elegant imperfection captures the charm of the sinuous façades that play with the light and its glimmers, with sights and sounds. It becomes no longer a question of axis but of paths that reveal surprises, both botanical and built. 

Le rythme de la façade

This former marshland was donning a new look for its new role of “neighbourhood town”; the issue of density management was a crucial one, and the challenge was to find the right scale to ensure the cohesion of the site. The proposed morphology was based on a humble vernacular architecture, as ordinary as it is contemporary. Referencing the composition of faubourgs or neighbourhoods, the operation is cadenced by the successive implantation of large buildings along circulation routes. These large houses, juxtaposed alongside one another, zig-zag along three streets, on the corners of which the façades curve and protect access to different parts of the programme. The proposed sequencing corresponds to a dense village centre. Somewhere between town and village, the maximum-4-storey “Large Houses” are on a human scale, their widths kept to some ten linear metres. The gradation, the palette of materials and the architectural language offer a domestic interpretation from the street. Some of the “houses” are in smooth brick, others have pitched roofs, others sport combinations of solid and void throughout, inside which are double-height terraces. The overall cohesion and dynamic is provided by the choice of common joinery and balconies.

LE PARTI PRIS URBAIN

In the future it will represent a new centrality for Carrières-sous-Poissy, featuring residential and mixed-activity programmes (retail, Leclerc shopping centre, cinema, shops). The geometry of the parcel L11’ moulds to the new, irregular, almost romantic road system, which is rare enough to deserve a mention; this choice of elegant imperfection captures the charm of the sinuous façades that play with the light and its glimmers, with sights and sounds. It becomes no longer a question of axis but of paths that reveal surprises, both botanical and built. 

Le rythme de la façade

This former marshland was donning a new look for its new role of “neighbourhood town”; the issue of density management was a crucial one, and the challenge was to find the right scale to ensure the cohesion of the site. The proposed morphology was based on a humble vernacular architecture, as ordinary as it is contemporary. Referencing the composition of faubourgs or neighbourhoods, the operation is cadenced by the successive implantation of large buildings along circulation routes. These large houses, juxtaposed alongside one another, zig-zag along three streets, on the corners of which the façades curve and protect access to different parts of the programme. The proposed sequencing corresponds to a dense village centre. Somewhere between town and village, the maximum-4-storey “Large Houses” are on a human scale, their widths kept to some ten linear metres. The gradation, the palette of materials and the architectural language offer a domestic interpretation from the street. Some of the “houses” are in smooth brick, others have pitched roofs, others sport combinations of solid and void throughout, inside which are double-height terraces. The overall cohesion and dynamic is provided by the choice of common joinery and balconies.