For this project of sixteen social housing units, the Atelier Gemaile RECHAK offers intuitive thresholds which address all levels of perception as well as the urban, intimate and landscape levels of the site. Exploration.

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Architects: Atelier Gemaile Rechak

Location: Avenue Gabriel Péri, 92500 Rueil-Malmaison, France

Area: 1250.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Milene Servelle

Plumbing & Hvac: ETB Antonelli

Economist: Loizillon Ingenierie

Building Engineering: CEBAT PARIS BET

Landscape: PAYSARCHITECTURES

© Milene Servelle

For this project of sixteen social housing units, the Atelier Gemaile RECHAK offers intuitive thresholds which address all levels of perception as well as the urban, intimate and landscape levels of the site. Exploration.
© Milene Servelle

Threshold The first threshold is the confrontation between a violent and noisy main road and a project which fulfils its urban function. The establishment of the construction and the dimensions of the two facades visible from the road maintain the link between a network of small houses and (closer to the town centre) buildings of up to five storeys. The variations of full and empty are thus reminiscent of the universe of a house and garden, all the while conne...