ILOW Housing, Parisian Apartment Development, Building Design Photos, French Architecture
ILOW Housing in Nanterre, Paris
21 Jan 2021
ILOW Housing
Architects: CRA for Bouygues Immobilier
Location: Nanterre, Paris, France

CRA and Bouygues Immobilier file permits for a new building in Paris, located in-between La Défense financial district and the 1970s iconic Tours Nuages social housing complex. The project serves as an experiment to mediate between different social worlds.
International design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Bouygues Immobilier have unveiled the design of ILOW Housing, a new building in Paris that aims to act as a bridge between La Défense, the French capital?s financial powerhouse, and the nearby Tours Nuages (Cloud Towers), one of the most iconic social housing projects of the postwar era. The building, designed in collaboration with Agence d’Architecture Willerval et Associés, is shaped like two open arms connecting two different socio-economic neighborhoods. Moreover, it leverages parametric design to generate a facade that reinterprets the Tours Nuages. CRA has filed building permits to the local municipal authority.
ILOW (pronounced EE-LOW) is located on the margin of La Défense, Europe?s largest business district, in the western part of the Parisian metropolitan area. The building edges towards a neighborhood in the municipality of Nanterre, which is home to the mimetic, soft-shaped ?Cloud Towers? designed by architect...