Italie RATP
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Maxime Delvaux
In the immediate vicinity of Place d'Italie, in this part of the 13th arrondissement overlooking the Mobilier National and the Manufacture des Gobelins, the RATP has a large maintenance site for the metro trains of line 5. Immediately adjacent to this industrial enclave surrounded by high walls, Édouard Albert's Croulebarbe tower rises up, a high-rise residential building with a fine metal structure.
The "Italy" site is composed of large workshops and a 1950s office building to be transformed into a line command post for the RATP and into social housing. The principle of the new facades is simple, alternating large mineral and glazed horizontals that guarantee a maximum of light and view for the future inhabitants. The extensions are made of metal structure, as light as possible, the building must indeed remain at constant weight so as not to be forced to resume the foundations. On the workshop side, the volume is thickened to accommodate kitchens and winter gardens. On the roof, two additional levels provide large terraces and distant views of the Parisian horizon.
hYBRIDS
↪ How can we rethink traditional city planning and respond to the urgencies of the continuously evolving urban environment?
Italie RATP
DATA
Maxime Delvaux
In the immediate vicinity of Place d'Italie, in this part of the 13th arrondissement overlooking the Mobilier National and the Manufacture des Gobelins, the RATP has a large maintenance site for the metro trains of line 5. Immediately adjacent to this industrial enclave surrounded by high walls, Édouard Albert's Croulebarbe tower rises up, a high-rise residential building with a fine metal structure.
The "Italy" site is composed of large workshops and a 1950s office building to be transformed into a line command post for the RATP and into social housing. The principle of the new facades is simple, alternating large mineral and glazed horizontals that guarantee a maximum of light and view for the future inhabitants. The extensions are made of metal structure, as light as possible, the building must indeed remain at constant weight so as not to be forced to resume the foundations. On the workshop side, the volume is thickened to accommodate kitchens and winter gardens. On the roof, two additional levels provide large terraces and distant views of the Parisian horizon.
hYBRIDS
↪ How can we rethink traditional city planning and respond to the urgencies of the continuously evolving urban environment?
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