DAY-CARE AND YOUNG WORKERS HOSTEL - Avenier Cornejo Architectes

Avenier Cornejo Architectes - DAY- CARE AND YOUNG WORKERS HOSTE

France - Miguel Cornejo

Biography

Miguel Cornejo, a chilean-french architect, was born in Santiago of Chile in 1974 and completed his studies at the Architectural School of Paris Malaquais. He alternated missions for Mathias Klotz in Chile and collaborated wih french agencies such as Roche & Sie (François Roche), XTU or Galiano Simon. In 2003 he created the agency AVENIER CORNEJO ARCHITECTS in Paris, in association with Christelle Avenier.

After winning the Electra Prize (Electricite de France) the agency reached public projects like social housing and equipements: 10 social housing for the RIVP in Paris, a kindergarden in the 20th neighbourhood of the city and a Day-care and young workers hostel at Porte de Lilas in the north of Paris. The agency built also a wooden family house in Orsay (Maison 2G). In 2013 Avenier Cornejo was selected by WALLPAPER Magazine in their Architects Directory. At the moment the agency has several housing projects in progress such as 145 housing projects in Paris Batignolles, 38 housing projects in Clichy la Garenne and 14 social housing in St Maur street in Paris.

DAY-CARE AND YOUNG WORKERS HOSTEL

Location: ZAC des Lilas, Paris 75020, France
Client: RIVP
Team: Avenier Cornejo architectes and Chartier Dalix architectes
Photo credits: David Foessel, Luc Boegly

This extremely compact project has several programs which transform the building into a true little machine for living. This density, which required an extremely logical organisation (in both the development and layout of the studio apartments), has 2 "breaths", one in respect of Urban and the second from the point of view of occupants.

The first breath is horizontal, formed by an open third floor, which gathers together all the community functions (library, gym, communal kitchen etc) arranged freely on a level, with an outlook on the city. The second breath is a vertical fault that brings natural light from all orientations, both horizontally and vertically.

In this way we are encouraging the use of communal space which will be viewed as shared and pleasant. From the urban point of view this work is a way of synchronizing the building with a topology of change: the ring road, its covering, the steep gradient of the area, the terrase of the Art Cinema in front... all these factors present in "porte des Lilas Paris" are like references, to which the new project talks through its own system of “urban balconies” playing with the new strata of the city.

This extremely compact project has several programs : a child-care centre and a residence for young working people and migrants which transform the building into a true "little machine for living". This density, which required an extremely logical organisation has two "breaths". The first breath is horizontal, formed by an open third floor, an “urban balcony” playing with the new layer of the city. The second is a vertical and brings light to the commun spaces. The facades is made of brick and both subtracted volumes covered with copper.

This building also generates electricity with two vertical urban wind turbines.

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