This project links the formal “rigidity” of the Avenue de France, the railway landscape, the access to Ivry and the shift in scale from a linear city to a vertical one; it is conceived as a unique building that combines social housing and residences with the possibility of home-ownership.
Many people aspire to living in individual housing, such as pavilions. There are many reasons for this but two main factors are recurrent: first there is the question of housing identity, the notion of “home” and second, the possibility of eating outdoors and having a direct relation with the outside and to be an owner. These desires must be taken into consideration in a way that is adapted to apartments in a collective building. We respond to this desire to belong, to own and to be unique while being part of a collective project by offering very diverse living accommodation and exterior spaces.

Delivered at the start of 2015, the HOME project will be the first 50 metre high residential building built inside Paris since the seventies. It symbolises the willingness of the city of Paris to re-examine the potential of hight.

Hamonic+Masson & Associés /  Comte Vollenweider