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LAN architectureが設計したフランス、ストラスブールのパステルカラーの建物が並ぶ地区 (designboom) LAN architecture livens strasbourg's saint urbain block with a palette of pastels (designboom)

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LAN ARCHITECTURE - TOUR EURAVENIR

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LAN Architecture, Carré Lumière, District Terres Neuves, Bègles, Bordeaux, France, 2015

Photography Julien Lanoo

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LAN Architecture: Carré Lumière (79-unit residential scheme), Bègles, Bordeaux: 2009-2015

Surface area: 6,311 m²  |  Cost: € 8.1M excl. VAT  

A new, ecological and social living space geared to the 21st century.

The project’s richness and major interest lie in the possibility of inventing an urban lifestyle set in a highly experimental framework enabling the affirmation of new ecological and contemporary architectures. The diversity of architectural propositions and communal and private spaces had to ensure and enhance this specificity.

The first stage was to ‘sculpt’ the volumes in order to exploit their urban potential and intrinsic spatial qualities.

We directed our research towards a hybrid typology combining the house and the apartment.

The principle underlying our approach was that of stacking containers, and careful study of habitat modes, climatic conditions and the sun’s trajectory throughout the year suggested the way to organise this.

The project’s column-slab supporting structure has a system of lightweight façades providing ultra-high performance insulation levels.

The relative narrowness of the buildings dictated a strategic search for compactness. The idea of variable compactness introduced the notion of a housing unit’s adaptability to seasons and times of day. All residents have the possibility of using their exterior space as a windbreak, a mini-greenhouse or, conversely, as a means of cooling or ventilating.

The morphology of each unit stems from the wish to develop housing units enabling a variety of uses very simply and with no extra technological input. We are therefore proposing cross-building units with adaptable exterior spaces and at least two different orientations.

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How are we addressing architecture in the 21st century?

This topic as well as other important ones are addressed and studied at La Biennale Architettura 2016! 

With the theme, “Reporting from the Front”, the 15th International Architecture Exhibition is breaking ground in every area of architecture and interior design. The participants and award winners showcase their designs and innovations that are making waves in valuable areas of international architecture. While some focus on designing sustainably, the main focus is on deeper cultural issues such as segregation, inequality, access to sanitation, housing shortage, migration, and community participation. These topics all address architecture in the 21st century and what we can do to improve society through well thought out and thoroughly researched design. Below is an example of what can be found at the Biennale Archetettura.

Original Article

“The project took advantage of every opportunity provided by the need to intervene on the buildings in this neighborhood. the overall strategy was to render new housing blocks more visible by using a more individualized architectural treatment while retaining a more public, open, green, landscaped approach by fashioning new green spaces. this has totally transformed the neighborhood. from residence to housing blocks, from no man’s land to urban parks the buildings have been reconfigured as identifiable entities… this project tries to restore identity and especially a sense of pride. it was conducted while the site was occupied. the génicart neighborhood represents only 10% of the town of lormont’s surface area, but it houses 50% of its population, approximately 10,500 inhabitants. everyone was informed, and everyone had an opportunity in one way or another to participate in this process. the challenge at the outset was to gain their trust and then to mobilize their energies so that they would experience their neighborhood as a special, unique place, not as just another cité.” – LAN architecture

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ベネチア国際建築ビエンナーレ2016でLAN architectureが展示した住宅プロジェクト (designboom) looking into LAN architecture's housing projects at the venice biennale (designboom)