The 38 housing project is located in Charleville-Mézières next to the Belgian border. This is made up of collective apartments of different sizes, superimposed and overlapping.

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Architects: ateliers O-S architectes

Location: Rue Georges Bizet, 08000 Charleville-Mézières, France

Lead Architects: Vincent Baur, Guillaume Colboc, Gaël Le Nouëne

Area: 3583.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Cyrille Weiner

Design Team: Vincent Baur, Guillaume Colboc, Gaël Le Nouëne Etienne Dechet (study phase) Marine Bouhin (construction phase)

General Engeneering: EGIS

Client: Habitat 08

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From the architect. The 38 housing project is located in Charleville-Mézières next to the Belgian border. This is made up of collective apartments of different sizes, superimposed and overlapping.

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A Neighborhood Scale
The challenge of this project is to settle in a heterogeneous context, composed of varied architecture: from the single-family house to the collective appartments building. The ambition is to reconcile these two types of dwelling radically different in order to create a coherent urban fabric . The project then proposes an intermediate density, halfway between the collective and individual housing.

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The public space is organized around four buildings whose location ensures respect for t...