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Project • By FdMP architectes • Apartments
Cedar Housing
Located in Châtelaine's district in Geneva, Cedar Housing responds to a residential zone's upcoming densification. With projects for small buildings and commercial activities nearby, the area, now characterized by individual houses, is set to change. Cedar Housing is the first dwelling of its kind. It reenacts adjoining houses' typology to offer a gradual shift towards a denser urban plan.
Cedar Housing, as its name reveals, is centered on a centenary-old cedar. The tree tells of the history of the site and gives it stamina. It was fundamental to preserve and to highlight, which influenced the design of the building considerably. The layout follows the tree's vegetal belt in a semi-circular fashion. Curves show both in... More
Project • By Pool Leber Architekten • Apartments
Wohnen ohne Auto
Wohnen ohne Auto (literally “Living without a car”) is a co-housing project, developed in a process of participatory design with a community of future residents. The project features a series of strategies which aim is to minimize the superfluous, to estabilish a collective attitude towards sharing and to encourage in general an environmentally conscious behaviour.The building is located in the former airport area of Munich-Riem and is part of the fourth and last construction phase of its reconversion. Its core point lies in the voluntary renouncement of car ownership by all the inhabitants, which is reflected in a sustainable planning approach.Together with three other new constructions, the project forms a rectangular city block around an... More