Black and White. 170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP
03/01/2020.
[Batignolles - Paris] France
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The large residential buildings are gradually being completed in the new ZAC Clichy-Batignolles neighborhood of the French capital at the foot of the judicial city of Paris. Winners of lot O4b from the ZAC Clichy-Batignolles, the architecture firms team by Vincent Parreira Atelier Architecture AAVP and Aires Mateus e Associados, built 170 homes.
The result is very graphic, suggest a structural enveloped that evoking fragility, notwithstanding the density.
The result is very graphic, suggest a structural enveloped that evoking fragility, notwithstanding the density.
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP. Photograph by Luc Boegly
Site urban plan. 170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP.
Site plan. 170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP.d shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP.
Ground floor plan. 170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP.
Floor plan. 170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP.
Elevations. 170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP.
Sections. 170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP.
Construction details. 170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP.
Construction details. 170 housing units and shops in Paris by Aires Mateus, Vincent Parreira-AAVP.
Vincent Parreira and Aires Mateus designed the overall project is enveloped in a white concrete exoskeleton of columns. Inhabitants will have an outside space, which at least for the moment is elegant (before life arrives, occupies and transforms it) offering generous terraces.
The structure re-inventing ways to inhabit a collective residential building, developing a flexible range of apartments, from studios to two bedrooms homes, that make be able to ever an increasing diversifying family needs.
A color link between the buildings black and white is the drilling in he tall building, 6 meters wide through 6 level high chinks, which provide visual breakthroughs and extra ventilation.
The structure re-inventing ways to inhabit a collective residential building, developing a flexible range of apartments, from studios to two bedrooms homes, that make be able to ever an increasing diversifying family needs.
A color link between the buildings black and white is the drilling in he tall building, 6 meters wide through 6 level high chinks, which provide visual breakthroughs and extra ventilation.
Project description by Vincent Parreira-AAVP Architecture
On parcel 04b, between the new street and the new Martin Luther King urban park, the project stands out with two distinct constructions, alternating full and empty places and offering in its center a privatized garden as a continuation of the park. "Such a design allows the building to release remarkable views of the city. This choice made it possible to build upwards and on a larger scale, in order to feel like living in the sky."
A monumental rift divides this large building, multiplies perspectives on the urban landscape and creates new ways of high-rise living.
"By a subtle game of elements replaced along the public space, the construction emerges according to the views, like a city made of bodies and transparencies. A piece of territory is fixed from the ground to the sky."
Vincent Parreira
The building, rises up to 50 meters and is located on the north-west side, along the park entrance, while the lower buildings are built up against the lot 04a, alongside the neighboring base, creating a suburban scale facing the park.
The landscaped garden becomes a negative piece to the buildings and a transition landscape between the park and the street. It participated to the distinction of the buildings, which project an image of lightness and fragility.
"First and foremost, this garden is an empty place. The project is made to emphasize this emptiness. We chose to add a chromatic difference between these two constructions, in order to characterize the emptiness, which should not only be read as a link between two volumes perpendicular to the park. We underline the distinction with their scale and their urban position. The building is two-tone. One part is white, monochrome, drawing the building form limits. Its imposing mass helps distinguish the first building from the second, which is black with golden highlights, it preserves the same constructive principles but establishes another relation with the central garden, based on erasure, like an absence. This disparity dialogues and enriches itself with the surrounding vegetation."
Vincent Parreira
Great care is put into the apartments quality standards thanks to large outdoor spaces: narrow continuous balconies Haussmann-inspired extend towards large terraces. On these, well-known forms restore the scale of domesticity to these large buildings.
"The mention of archetype, here the archetype of the house, makes the design of the building more beautiful. This construction reinvests the Parisian tradition with great sensitivity."
Vincent Parreira
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Architects
Design Team
Vincent Parreira, Eric Crochu, Manuel Aires Mateus, Jorge P. Silva.
Collaborators
Maître d’œuvre d’exécution.- Antiope. Landscape design.- Atelier Roberta. MEP.- Elithis (fluids), Environmental elements (HQE).
Developer
Paris Batignolles Aménagement
Client
Kaufman & Broad
Main builder
Bouygues Immobilier
Area
Floor area.- 12,604 m²
Dates
April 2018 (delivery), 2012 (launch of studies).
Location
Lot O4B (Paris 17e). ZAC Clichy-Batignolles. Paris, France.
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AIRES MATEUS
Manuel Rocha Aires Mateus. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1963. Graduates as an architect in F.A./U.T.L., Lisbon Portugal in 1986. Collaboration with architect Gonçalo Byrne since 1983. Collaboration with architect Francisco Aires Mateus since 1988.
Teacher in Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA, in 2002 and 2005. Invited teacher in Fakulteta za Arhitekturo, Universa v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2003/2004. Teacher in Accademia di Architectura,Mendrízio, Switzerland, since 2001. Professor in Universidade Autónoma, Lisbon, since 1998. Professor in Universidade Lusíada, Lisbon, since 1997. Invited for several seminars and conferences in: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.
Francisco Xavier Aires Mateus. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1964. Graduates as an architect F.A./U.T.L., Lisbon Portugal in 1987. Collaboration with architect Gonçalo Byrne since 1983. Collaboration with architect Manuel Aires Mateus since 1988.
TEACHING. Visiting professor at Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo 2009. Teacher in Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA, in 2005. Teacher at Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera Italiana, since 2001. Professor at Universidade Autónoma in Lisbon since 1998. Invited Teacher for seminaries in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, England, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Chile, Brazil, USA, Slovenia, Croatia, Canada and Japan.
Vincent Parreira AAVP
AAVP. Vincent Parreira founded AAVP in 2001, his studio in the 11th district in Paris. In Vincent Parreira's office, you are likely to see cow massacres, a 1: 1 scale rhino head, transparent partitions, art photos and a punching bag. Vincent Parreira does not like sad architecture. Vincent Parreira believes that each building can improve life, so Vincent Parreira demands that each of his projects offer a better life to its users.
Vincent Parreira's studio has designed 6 schools, 1,018 housing units, a hotel and half a museum. Vincent Parreira abominates small spaces. Vincent Parreira carried out a shopping center project that we call Atoll, because it does not look like a shopping center, but an undulating island in the countryside.
Vincent Parreira contradicts Aldof Loos and does not see the ornament as a crime. Vincent Parreira rejects the answers already made and the preconceived stairs. Vincent Parreira has 3 pairs of arms, his own and those of his two partners, Marie Brodin and Éric Crochu. Vincent Parreira rebuilt with them his Holy Trinity architecture. Now there are 20 collaborators to attack the most daring projects.
Vincent Parreira's studio has designed 6 schools, 1,018 housing units, a hotel and half a museum. Vincent Parreira abominates small spaces. Vincent Parreira carried out a shopping center project that we call Atoll, because it does not look like a shopping center, but an undulating island in the countryside.
Vincent Parreira contradicts Aldof Loos and does not see the ornament as a crime. Vincent Parreira rejects the answers already made and the preconceived stairs. Vincent Parreira has 3 pairs of arms, his own and those of his two partners, Marie Brodin and Éric Crochu. Vincent Parreira rebuilt with them his Holy Trinity architecture. Now there are 20 collaborators to attack the most daring projects.
