This portion of the Dessous des Berges street  is rather unusual as the adjacent office constructions are all set back 5m from the common Parisian street alignment.

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Architects: ODILE+GUZY architectes

Location: 62 Rue du Dessous des Berges, 75013 Paris, France

Architect In Charge: Julien Odile, Michaël Guzy

Area: 3470.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: David Foessel

Client : Paris Habitat OPH

Consultants : ophie Barbaux - landscape architect, ODC Quantity Surveyor EVP structural engineer, Batscop building-site pilot.

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From the architect. This portion of the Dessous des Berges street  is rather unusual as the adjacent office constructions are all set back 5m from the common Parisian street alignment.
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To integrate the new building into this context without penalizing its feasibility, the project plays with both the programmatic and urban constraints to produce quite a creative proposal. Suspended over a front garden, the buildings front facade is carved and sculpted to create volumes that connect with the different planes of the street facade.

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This allows the project to integrate into its surroundings while subtly contrasting with the neighboring static masses. The different distortions on the buildings front facade create generous alternating apartment balconies. These bal...