This building is conceived simply as a new inhabitant of the neighborhood, integrating into its context with calmness and dignity. The deliberately restrained treatment of its image avoids any superfluous effect.
Client: VILOGIA
Programme: Building of 43 social housing units. Wooden structure. Walls, partitions and slabs in solid cross-laminated timber (CLT)
Floor area: 2,997 m²
Budget : 5 350 000 €
Mission : completed
Team: Pablo Katz Architecture y LB.V Arquitectura
TCE company: ADC constructions
BET: Sylva Conseil (timber), Elithis (MEP & thermal), Benefficience (acoustics & environment)
Landscaper: Format paysage
Certifications / Labels : Certification Habitat & Environnement profil A – Label Effinergie+
Facing the departmental road, the building expresses its urban character with a certain presence through a single, clear gesture; toward the interior, it reveals the volumetric complexity of domestic space, opening its loggias and balconies toward optimal orientations, its garden, and the surrounding suburban fabric.
Timber construction offers several advantages compared to so-called “traditional” building techniques: lightness, speed of construction, carbon storage, thermal inertia and phase shift, hygrometric regulation, and reduced waste and disturbance during construction, among others. In this project, except for the basement and part of the ground floor, the structure is made of cross-laminated solid timber (CLT) walls, party walls, and slabs.
