Empalot District Housing, Toulouse Residential Building, CoBe French Architecture Photos
Empalot District Housing, Toulouse
21 April 2022
New housing program in the Empalot district, Toulouse
Design: CoBe Architecture et Paysage
Location: Toulouse, southern France

Photos by Ce?dric Colin
New Housing in Empalot District, Toulouse, France
The CoBe Architecture & Paysage agency has just delivered a housing program in the Empalot district in Toulouse, France. Discover an urban architecture with finesse.

In the south of Toulouse, in the Empalot district, 90 housing units for sale and 20 social housing units are located in two volumes, a vertical one: «the belvedere», and a horizontal one: «the prairie building», sliding against each other and showing light facades with sun protections and generous balconies.
A few metro stations from the heart of Toulouse, along the Garonne, Empalot is a district of the city being renewed, close to the city center, mainly composed of housing complexes of the 1950s, with generous public spaces. It is one of the city?s gateways.

With a plot located between the river and a football field, in a wide-open environment, the MG3 lot of Empalot district acts as a leader in the urban composition system and offers a real metropolitan dimension to the project.

With a south-facing main facade bordering a football field, it was essential to think about how to guarantee summer comfort to all apartments.

That is why a double device has been set ...