Terrace 9 Housing and Office Building in Nanterre, Architect, French Residential Design, Architecture
Terrace 9 Housing and Office Building in Nanterre
Residential Development in Western Paris, France – design by AZC architects
16 Nov 2016
Terrace 9 Housing and Office Building in Nanterre
Location: Nanterre, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France
Design: AZC, architects
Terrace 9 Housing and Office Building in Nanterre

Larger territory
This set of 147 housing units is located in Nanterre on the land between the

Departmental Council of Hauts-de-Seine and the Nanterre University Train

Station.
The project is part of Seine-Arche development, which concerns a wider

territory in line with the axis of Defense.
Taking into account the natural relief and the coexistence of various road
networks which pass through, the Seine-Arche development required the

upstream of colossal structures.
Aiming to attract here new populations from all over the department of

Hauts-de-Seine, the urban project was designed to restore the site scale and

habitability, through a series of seventeen “Urban Terraces”.
The project we designed with Bouygues is part of the Terrace 9, and is

situated between the tunnel of RER A and that of the A4 highway.

The block is bounded on its north and south sides by two new gardens that

cover the train tunnels: the ?Promenade garden? and the ?Terrace 9 garden?;

on the east by a monumental stair that connects the two landscapes; a...