True and creative, RMDM architects agency puts its energy in the research of a senseful architecture, responding to the events that surround it, entire and poetical, ambitious ndeed, but far from the obviousnesses of the conventional. Since 2001, creation year of the agency following to their Europan VI award, the 3 associates Eric Dolent, Philippe Maillols and Alexandre de Muizon’s architectural biases have been dictated by the alliance of the unique and the coherent. This process leads them towards a present work, sensible, generating identity and atmospheres, where aims and constraints stay mastered and heard like inputs of new opportunities. 

This is certainly this alchemy between artistic approach and contextual consideration that brings them to win in 2002 the “The New Albums of the Young Architects” first session competition and to exhibit at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and at the 1st Architecture Biennale in Beijing. Having today the support and confidence of some famous public and private clients, in France and abroad, RMDM architects validate continuously their approach through various projects at every scale. To renew the urban face in re transcribing the questionings of a reliable architecture aiming to affirm intrinsic qualities of the built beyond the plans, to seek the added values in terms of practicality and use comfort. These are the motivations that animate RMDM architects’ technical analysis and modeling developments.

 

A construction like an imposed figure, the reflection of constrained urban calibres, but knowing how to find its own specificity thanks to the treatment of the frontages and the arrangement of the housing. 

With an average of five flats by level for only one stairwell, we took the stand of compacity and then decided to homothetically reduce the envelope capacity of the frame in order to liberate the maximum exterior spaces. Therefore, we define a terrace or a balcony for each housing, delimited by metal skin randomly perforated, like a permeable envelop with different points of view. 

As a matter of fact, each flat is widely glazed on outside views and most of them owns a double orientation. The nursery is developed on the ground floor, with its entrance on the opposite frontage of the housing one. Lines, transparencies and superpositions embody the building, favouring at the same time the intimacy of the inhabitants and a colourful presence in this new urbanenvironment. 

More than a simple continuity of the two next blocks around, the building conforms to the expected volumes but claims its own identity in a overall coherence. 

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