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107 housings and crèches of 66 cradles

Paris 10

Published in October 2014

" The corresponding built volume in all of the plot of land, is an island. It partitions first time in two parts, two thicknesses. So, a facade develops on the railroad tracks of the gare du Nord station to welcome the entry of the crib. The opposite facade assures an alignment without break on the street of the Fishmongers to have a dialogue with the working-class Parisian. There will spread the future businesses.

Between both, a heart, an interiority, space for " a good neighborhood relationship", the idea of the court, the heart of island. The court is for the day-nursery, transparent, landscape patio in continuation of the freshly inaugurated public garden. Above, of the air, the light, the sky.
The day-nursery is set back within the street of the Fishmongers. On a single level and on the same level as the court, it wants to assume the simplest, the most harmonious possible functioning. The stake was to maintain the day-nursery at the heart of the project while allowing the cohabitation between the court and the housing. So, the remote putting of the internal facades of housing by a system of canopies forming courts protects the children while offering an intermediate space, a natural continuation of the rooms of awakening on the outside ". Nunc architects 

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Project management: Nunc architects
Project ownership: Paris Habitat OPH