Vernier 115 Housing

The urban project for the quartier de Vernier includes a well-adjusted mix of public facilities - sports and youth facilities - work areas, social housing and temporary accommodation associated with the uses of the facilities. A small percentage of commercial space on the ground floor of the residential buildings is added to this programme, thus achieving a balanced result for the life of a new fragment of the city of Geneva. The competition's approach calls for a response with an anonymous vocation, which must be excellent without being singular, adding one more piece to the puzzle of a successfully consolidated urban fabric.

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Our proposal is consciously and with conviction on the side of neutral and economical architecture, capable of blending in naturally with the city to which it belongs. However, this natural and apparently anonymous architecture is capable of offering innovative and specific qualities based on the material and dimensional control of spaces. Small distortions of intensity such as a 'rising floor', a deep well of light, a large window like an eye of Polyphemus, a cut-out plinth or a collection of colourful skylights punctually vibrate the placidity of timeless buildings in a gentle melody that could be called "Anonymous Walt".

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