Link City - Quimper | A3 Argouarch Architectes Associés
Quimper / France
The new created urban landscape articulates independent objects that interact with each other and answer each other in terms of volumetry, scale in a common architectural language and whose link is the public space and the landscape. It consists of an inter-generational residence of 38 dwellings, 26 social housing units, 17 for home ownership and a children's center.
The basic principles of development of the island are:
• Open widely on Pont l'Abbé street and offers a breath of fresh air through a generous public space.
• Cross the island from side to side, connecting its development with the existing network of alleys on the site, and also with the public garden east to the Odet.
• Organize pedestrian and automobile traffic flows by focusing on pedestrian meeting and exchange spaces.
The new created urban landscape articulates independent objects that interact with each other and answer each other in terms of volumetry, scale in a common architectural language and whose link is the public space and the landscape. It consists of an inter-generational residence of 38 dwellings, 26 social housing units, 17 for home ownership and a children's center. The basic principles of development of the island are:• Open widely on Pont l'Abbé street and offers a breath of...
- Work started in 2014
- Client Cirmad
- Status Competition works
- Type Neighbourhoods/settlements/residential parcelling / Apartments / Social Housing
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