30 SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS

The project is a commission from OPAC {Paris public planning and construction department}, the largest public housing agency in France, for low budget and ecological dwellings, achieving precise social criteria and representing a pioneering approach taken to sustainable development in terms of layout.
The housing complex we designed for the site consists of 4 separates buildings, disposed around a central green area. Buildings provide a number of alternative choices of apartment’s types and, in this respect, can be seen to be an assemblage of individual dwellings rather than buildings containing a certain number of apartments.

A specific design, declinable for every plot, made-to-measure, responding to required environmental purposes and composing volumetric variations continuing adjacent surroundings.
All of the housing projects are the result of a delicate work of “filtration”: protection from urban noise, openness toward the blocks, orientation according to the position of the sun, orientation of the site. The degree of privacy, a clear spatial organisation and the quality of the interior spaces were also ensured, as well as intellectual, emotional and physical access.

30 SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS by umberto napolitano in France won the WA Award Cycle 2. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.