Périphériques / Paris, France

In order to meet the ambitious requirements in termes of comfort, of performance (low energy consumption building - 50 kWh/m2 per year not including produced photovoltaic energy), and of economy, we have imagined a building in an innovative form, use and function. 

Implantation
The project lets the parc enter in the heart of the block – we are interested in «opening large and direct views from within the depth of the blocks». We suggest a compact building with a parc all around, extending to the heart of the next blocks.

Morphology
A compact building is an ecological and an economical one.
Our building is ring shaped around a vast and luminous yard. All the appartments therefore enjoy a double exposition. The exterior and interior envelopes have light thick facades that allows to reduce thermal bridges as well as to integrate an important insulating layer. On the exterior a textured metal protection «clothes» the envelope, whereas the yard facade is covered in a prismatic reflecting skin made in aluminum sheets . When perforated, those sheets function as absorbing baffles as to assure a pleasant space to share and live.