16 social housing units
The project is located in a gap in the city center of Antibes.
Between two residential buildings with very different expressions. A silent building from the 70s, of a fairly modest design, and a very expressive recent building that forms the prow of the block.
The primary urban desire of the project is to reconcile these two characters with such opposing faces and attitudes by an outstretched hand, a unitary hyphen that is lodged between the two.
The project then seeks to be as urban as possible, that is to say to install a rhythmic and repetitive relationship. This composition wants to nourish the public space with its color that radiates the street through its relationship to the light and the shape offered to the columns. A vertical tripartition installs the project between its relationship to the ground and the sky.
It wants to become a piece in addition to a local heritage, anchored in this place by its characteristic light of the Mediterranean basin and by its color with Italian accents. It wants to be a Florentine Renaissance palace.
Access to a courtyard of honor is via a long curved passage that aims to lengthen time and make us enter a first moment of the entry sequence.
This courtyard, decorated with an orange tree and a pyramid, with the yellow materiality of a unique tinted concrete welcomes the resident before giving access to the exterior distributive passageways.
The passage decorated with scallop shells and a welcome message, just like the courtyard, welcomes users by implementing small attentions that seek to increase the collective dimension of the spaces traveled.
The passageways become moments of last exchanges before returning home. Serving only three dwellings per level, it is easy to imagine their appropriations in good neighborly relationships in order to make the dwellings overflow into this intermediate sphere.
The typologies work on the construction of interior landscapes noting that the exterior views will not be able to qualify the interior spaces.
Thus a system of rooms is drawn, and a typology by enfilade appears. Each room is defined by its own structure left visible in the accommodation (falling beams) which participates both in the overall structure of the floors while giving the measure of the room. The thresholds between the rooms are the subject of a particular work as well as the layout of the floors which accompany and underline the general arrangement.
The space stretches through the successive frames while putting the scenes of daily life at the center of the composition.
Thus the rooms are housed in the structure and by their series allow an appropriation of the apartments left to the future residents.
The interior circulations are multiplied by the installation of two doors per room which offers increased freedom of movement within the accommodation itself.
