88 Boulevard Ney, Paris 18 Apartment Building, Porte de Clignancourt Architecture Photos
88 Boulevard Ney, Paris 18 Building
30 July 2020
88 Boulevard Ney, Paris 18 Social Housing
Architects: ITAR Architectures
Location: 88 Boulevard Ney, Paris 18 (75), France
88 Boulevard Ney
72 social housing units, crèche & shops

The Porte de Clignancourt neighborhood is being reinvented
Participating in the urban renewal of the boulevard Ney and the Porte de Clignancourt, this new building is split into two volumes linked at the bottom by a shared platform occupied by the nursery.

Here, this densification of a lot already in existence since the 70s aligns the built part with the boulevard, rendering it a tighter and livelier place.
Respectful of the Modernist architecture of the existing towers, the positioning of the two beacons of 6 and 9 stories facing each other, and their splicing in staggered setbacks, creates views for the existing towers as well as the new apartments and increases sunshine on the nursery?s courtyard.

The sliding effects result in the floors being treated as strata tapering the volumes. The rounded corners of the building, composed of a blend of materials enhancing light and transparency, are in contrast with the right angles of the existing towers.

Series of geometric brick assemblages create a delicate pattern enlivening the façades while their corners and the guardrails of the terraces and loggias are made of an airy assemblage of brick openwork.

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