Atelier Zundel Cristea

* Company:

Atelier Zundel Cristea

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Owner/principal

City:

Paris

Website:

http://www.zundelcristea.com

04MAR 2012

Bon Secours / Atelier Zundel Cristea

Posted in Architecture - Housing by Atelier Zundel Cristea | Tags: France

The architecture of retirement homes today is stereotyped.

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Architects try hard to "cram" the elderly into buildings with specific labeling, such as “cottages”, “villages for the old”, “frail care lodges”, whose overall aim is to reflect the symbolically rural.

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The exterior aspect of these buildings is usually requested to be conceived of rather traditionally, with a rather small scale, and with slanted roofing, “rather like in a village”.

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But here we are in the heart of Paris, and in the 21st Century.

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We propose an urban project whose scale is consistent with its surrounding neighbors.

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A modern project taking note of its era, as well as of the progressive changes in elderly care and housing practices.

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A Parisian housing establishment without architectural effects of style, easily blending into its neighborhood.

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The structured heterogeneity of the real world is reflected in our project by means of a spatial horizontal stratification.

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City:
Paris

Client:
I3F

Design team:
Atelier Zundel Cristea

Status:
Work in progress

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