10B Housing

The site, a triangular plot was a leftover from previous developments. The location beside a ravine reduced the proportion of usable land, and the building molds to the shape of this area: a triangle demarcated to the north by the ravine and to the south by 10B street, and to the east and west by pre-existing constructions.

The strategy was to divide the triangle into three parts: Apartment type A (205 m2), Apartment type B (175 m2) and vertical circulation. This formal strategy prevented the staircase from becoming the typical leftover space but instead a pleasant, well-ventilated zone where people could gather. This also gave independent entrances to every apartment, so the corridor gave access along two sides of each unit and two doors could be inserted: one for the house and one for a potential office space accessible from the outside.

We decided on the need for seven windows on the southern side, each one measuring 2 meters high by 1.20 meters wide; each owner could position them according to each owner’s needs in the Type A apartments. On the east façade, for the Type B apartments, we chose a glass-door and half-balcony system, divided into two units, one longer than the other, which could also be located on any part of the façade while respecting the same heights for the windowsill and heads, which could also be arranged in any order. The north façade, the largest, had long glass doors affording a direct and clear view onto the trees.

Finally, the west façade was simply a small preponderant cube on the façade that adjusted to different typologies of bathroom, bedroom, or studio for the Type A apartments.