Text description provided by the architects. YOUNIQ Vienna TrIIIple is located in the third tower of the TrIIIple building complex, along Erdberger Lände in Vienna’s 3rd district. The building, which opened in spring 2021, stands out from the modern skyline of Vienna with its 35 floors. The goal was to […]
Tag: Social Housing
172 Subsidized Houses in Sarriguren
Text description provided by the architects. We want to raise the inner lane to the category of “reason” of the project. In order to do this, besides the compositional order decisions, we force the access to the houses through this space, qualifying it and generating in this way activity and […]
Residential Care Centre Sint-Jozef Woumen
The new residential care centre offering around 100 beds replaces the existing, outdated St. Jozef facility in Woumen, a submunicipality of Diksmuide. Based on an urban development, historical, ecological and social analysis, B2Ai opted for a contemporary monastery typology that clearly refers to the site’s past. This configuration provides […]
BBK Sarriko Centre
Text description provided by the architects. The BBK Sarriko Centre is a residential building that combines two different uses: retirement homes and social flats for young people. The design had to be flexible and able to accommodate changes throughout the life of the building, since the client wants accommodation for […]
Bottière-Chênaie
Text description provided by the architects. The project reflects on the theme of density and the notion of urbanity, on the idea of relation to the landscape, and on the concept of “plus” spaces, in the large peri-urban developing sectors I. Situation. The Bottière-Chênaie concerted development zone (Z.A.C.) – An […]
Netter Social Housing
How to build social housing on a contemporary way in a district of Paris with a strong Haussmann identity and at the same time how to answer the challenges of nowadays, and among them sustainability? The organisation of the dwellings inspires itself from Haussmann apartments principles with representative spaces […]
Montmarte Wintergarden Housing
Text description provided by the architects. In January 2012, Atelier Kempe Thill in collaboration with Fres architects won the competition for fifty apartments, a dentists practice, a mother – child – care centre and an underground car park at the Porte de Montmartre in Paris for the public housing corporation […]
23 Dwellings in Béthune
Text description provided by the architects. The project is situated in Béthune, in the North of France, in a district registered on the program of the National Agency for the Urban Renovation. This project groups together 23 ‘semi-collective’ social housing units. The inspiration for the design came from research into […]