Description
Included in the “Opération Jeanne-Hachette” and known as “Les Etoiles”, the Renaudie’s Ivry-complex is made up of 40 social dwellings, offices and stores which are mixed on different levels composing a sort of a pyramid structure.
The term “brutalist”, which has been used to describe the work of Renaudie, seems somewhat hasty to define the urban richness which this project harbours.
Nearly forty years after its construction, the freshness of the proposal remains intact, even if people who lives it often don’t know the futuristic aim of the project.
Public and private spaces are mixed and third dimension is also used, not only as a pedestrian flat lid but as play platforms invaded by wild vegetation.
The triangles compositive theme and the green element shaped the strategy to lighten the presence of concrete, in order to mix nature and architectural structure: open volumes, flexible spaces, elastic ways of circulation give to the complex a labyrintine touch.
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Architect
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Owner
Time & Place
Status
built
Date
01/02/1975
Address
Ivry-sur-Seine, Frankreich floorplan|Jean Renaudie, Renée Gailhoustet project_plan|architect_project
Specifications
Floors
Height
Staircases
Units per Staircase
Units per Floor
Units
Unit Area
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Floor Area Typical
Area Total
Podium Area
Courtyard Area
Ground floor Area
Residents
Parking Spaces
Taxonomy
Organisation
150+
Material
Iron concrete
Structure
Usage
Housing, shops
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