Apartment Towers Tour Nuage

Friederike Schneider

Description

Softly modeled residential towers in a topographically designed, man-made landscape, soft edges with perforated multi-colored facade and drop-shaped windows. Five units are grouped around a single access core. Hallway provides access to kitchen and living room that merge in the eating space before the window. Located behind the living room is a bedroom hallway with bedroom and bath.

The baths form a buffer around the core, the kitchen rows are positioned along the walls between the apartments. The units are easily furnished despite curving outer surface. Orientation to several sides; diverse views to the outside.

Drawings

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Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500

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Sketch of the site

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Typical floor plan, scale 1:200

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Aerial view of the development

Photos

View of development’s green space


Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.

Building Type Housing

Morphological Type Complex/Ensemble, High-Rise

Urban Context Modernist Urban Fabric

Architect Emile Aillaud

Year 1975

Location Paris

Country France

Geometric Organization Radial

Building Depth 20-30 m

Number of Units 1607

Size of Units Each floor has: 2-Room Apts., Approx. 50 m² (2 Units)
3-Room Apt., Approx. 70 m² (1 Unit)
4-Room Apts.,Approx. 85 m² (2 Units)

Height High-Rise (8 levels and more)

Load-Bearing Structure Solid Construction

Access Type Vertical Core

Layout Living Room as Circulation Center, Zoning

Parking Garage (3 Stories)

New Building, Refurbishment or Extension New Building

Additional Information 18 residential Towers on wave-shaped ground plan, building stands in a topographically modeled, artificial park landscape
13, 20, and 39 Stories

Address Nanterre Sud
Paris-La Défense

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