18-room Elderly Residential Home

This residence for elderly people in situations of economic precarity is in the city centre of Clichy, an urban village typified by mansard roofs and brick facades. The project aims to provide high quality generous living spaces with a gradation between collective and individual living that may be appropriated by each resident. While individual rooms are of modest size, the design aims to make the most of the space available and to open outwards to individual “porches” lining sociable shared landings on each floor of six individual rooms. The dual aspect ground floor opens onto the street on a major axis of Clichy village, with a space for associations that is open for use by both the Fondation Les Petits Frères des Pauvres and other organisations in the area.

On the garden side, the shared social room opens towards a cooling luscious garden. The residence is composed of qualitative and durable materials, with an emphasis on low carbon and biosourcing. Based upon a simple column and beam wooden structural system, materials are selected in order to facilitate a “dry” assembly on site in order to limit the duration and impact of the construction work on the dense village centre. From construction to use, the elderly residence integrates itself with finesse in its local environment.