230 housing in Mantes-la-Jolie
Construction of 231 housing units (107 social rental and 124 for private ownership), commercial spaces, shared garden, and semi-underground parking.AXK (atelier Krauss) : 79 units (38 social housing units et 41 private ownership units
DESIGN TEAM
ANMA, architects
Atelier Krauss, associate architects
NORTEC, engineering
Addressed on Avenue de la Grande Halle, a structuring path of the new urban development, the plot will ultimately benefit from proximity to the various facilities of the neighborhood. In order to ensure future residents a pleasant though dense living environment, the program is divided into eight plots, three of which are borne by Atelier Krauss.
Like a hollow tooth, the urban planning of the block is based on two points : a dense but porous built belt and a vast free and planted heart. Sometimes high, sometimes low, the altimetry of the eight buildings vary. Apart from a breakdown of the inhabited mass, this variation contributes to the integration of the project in its context where offices, individual houses, small and large collective buildings will soon bridge the gap between the ancient Sulzer hall and the RER station.
Although based on a common vision of the habitat, each building is different from the others due to its morphology and position on the block.
Designed in the shape of a T, its volume is rational and compact. It is determined by two lateral faults and an outgrowth on heart of the block. A porch provides access to the entrance hall by offering the visitor an additional view of the garden. An altimetric difference between the public space and the plot allows the ground floor apartments to be raised in relation to the street.
Inside, each home is designed with the aim of guaranteeing maximum comfort for future residents. The internal partitioning results from a reflection on the intimacy and flexibility of spaces. The living rooms are placed as far as possible on the garden side to enjoy the best exhibitions. The typological distribution is studied in order to obtain, on each floor, a mixture of small and medium-sized units. The ends of the block are reserved for the largest typologies, offering them a triple orientation. All the apartments have at least one private outdoor space, the nature of which – balcony, terrace, loggia or garden – varies according to its orientation and location in the project (on street, on fault or on heart of block).
For the sake of construction rationality, the openings are repeated from level to level creating a systematic alternation between full and empty. On street as on faults, a tinted stain lightly covers the concrete, giving a glimpse of the grain of the material. A bevelling of the frames of the openings reveals the thickness of this stained skin that deep loggias enliven. Dressed in clear plaster, the garden-side facades enjoy a more refined but lively rational style : narrow and frank bays, numerous balconies and a grading of the outgrowth. Oscillating from one fault to another, three double-pitched roofs complete the template between dynamism and lightness.
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