Entre Deux Rives

The development will revitalize a former industrial wasteland. It includes 165 homes in 8 buildings ranging from 3 and 7 floors, spread over 3 small blocks.

Living here means adopting an island identity, a mind-set specific to Ile-Saint-Denis. The building, within the green neighborhood, has been developed as a shared space, to be invested collectively. Council and private housing share the same staircases. Passages between blocks are designed to encourage meetings. Empty spaces invite residents to appropriate them; the loggia gardens can become a subject for discussions amongst neighbors. Shared spaces with wide windows and Persian blinds, and the low fences around the rolling gardens encourage openness to one another.

165 housing units LEBs
Address: 7 Quai du Chatelier, 93450 L’Île-Saint-Denis
Client: ICADE
Social housing: CAPS
Architects: PHILIPPON - KALT
Thermal engineering consultant: ALTO
Engineering consultant: LGX
Total area: 11 100 m² SP/12 200 m² SHON
Cost: 16,5 M€ HT
Architectural Project: 2008
Work in two stages: July 2011 to March 2014