DESCRIPTION

The targeted goals include both the good quality of housing through compliance with the rules of sustainable development and the creation of a living environment capable of generating a feeling of belonging to this environment which is conducive to the development of both people. and their community.

THE SITE

An area of ​​1,200m² already occupied by a convenience store will be vacated and decontaminated before construction.  Barclay Avenue, residential, to the southeast; Victoria Avenue, commercial, to the northeast; Winnie and Nelson Mandela Park to the northwest; a series of 3½-storey concierge houses stretching along Barclay to the southwest border the site.

THE CONCEPT

The implementation

The block head building is located with a setback from the lot line more or less equivalent to that of the neighboring HLM on Victoria Avenue, i.e. 4 meters, while on Barclay, the setback is only 1.5 meters.  However, the edge belonging to the City, from the lot line to the sidewalk, is 3 meters wide.

Access

The entrance to the community center opens onto Victoria Avenue, which is primarily commercial.

The entrance to the concierge-type dwellings is on Avenue Barclay, which is residential.

Distribution of functions

The community center occupies 476m2 of the ground floor and 354m2 of the basement (upper floor).

With the exception of a large dwelling on the ground floor, the dwellings occupy the seven floors above.

Volumetry

From the start, the diversification of the functions of housing and community center, in the same building announces that it is a place on the one hand, open to all with large bay windows and on the other hand, intimate and more closed in its residential part. A shift of the lower floor in relation to the upper ones will break up the overall volume and express the community function of the ground floor. The height of 8 floors of the complex is similar to that of the neighbor opposite, Avenue Barclay. The COS reaches 5.94 if we take into account the surface area of ​​the basement. However, the presence of Winnie-and-Nelson-Mandela Park mitigates its impact.

The facades

Taking inspiration from the neighborhood, wide bands of gray bricks on a buff background, which always follow right angles, encompass windows and doors and continue all around the building.  These wall masonry patterns can be used to identify the residential building and create a feeling of belonging among its users.