Bacalan Village
n Bordeaux, in the heart of the Bacalan neighborhood, you can definitely feel an all-over historical identity. When we started working on a new life for these former imperial stables which had been converted into wine cellars, we chose to highlight the strong and lasting nature of these stone buildings by conserving their repetitive beauty.
To change the function of the buildings, we modified their form and gave them the properties of housing units. We created openings which featured the same recurrence as the whole so that we stayed consistent with the uniformity of the site.
With a capacity of 280 apartments, the project was subdivided into several units in order to create a more intimate scale, reinforced by the creation of courtyards surrounded by about fifteen apartments each. The diversity of housing is to be found in the intimacy of private spaces.
