Residential Bends

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2024 Author: David Durham | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-09 00:52

Courbes for 134 apartments is located in Colombes - a city included in the "second ring" of the suburbs of Paris. But now a high-speed tram has arrived, linking Colombes both with the center of the metropolitan area and with the La Defense business district, which is much closer. This has become an incentive for new construction, which takes place in a very heterogeneous environment: among single-family and multi-family buildings of the 1980s and 1990s.

Residential complex Courbes, which can be translated as "Bends", was built in the reconstruction zone of the boulevard Charles de Gaulle. Glazed double-height commercial premises on the first floor are facing this highway.

Жилой комплекс Courbes Фото © Fernando Guerra (FG+SG)

The author of the project, architect Christoph Roussel, divided the volume into two buildings with a complex curvilinear silhouette. Any next floor follows its curve and recedes from the lower level. Each apartment received 22 m2 of spacious balconies-terraces. Oak parquet is widely used in the interior.

Жилой комплекс Courbes Фото © Takuji Shimmura

The complex shape is accentuated by visually blurring materials. The facades are partly made of shiny stainless steel. The glass railing of the balconies, at the same time mirrored and transparent, meandering after the walls of the buildings, reaches a total length of more than two kilometers.