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CITÉ MONTSOURIS
Design a high-rise project in an urban environment with wood.
This building is located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, on land occupied by the railway network of the Petite Ceinture. Now abandoned, the building stands above this void to highlight it when it is reopened.
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The building offers residential use with 64 flats. 90% of the wood is used for the structure, visible on the façade thanks to the use of biosourced polycarbonate. The building also has a participatory garden and public spaces on the ground floor.
The project is characterised as a modular building with repeated units progressively set back from the street forming two irregular emergences. This formal optimization is induced by the sunlight and the views on the Montsouris park.
Publication in Forestopic, 31 May 2019 - The Archi’bois prize for «an electroshock in schools of architecture»
