Bassins à flot Housing by Josep Lluís Mateo, Bordeaux residential building, French property design images

Bassins à flot Housing in Bordeaux

Contemporary Homes in Southwest France design by Josep Lluís Mateo architect

7 Jun 2017

Design: Mateo Arquitectura

Location: Bordeaux, France

Bassins à flot Housing, Bordeaux

In the Garonne river port, Bassins à flot, Bordeaux.

Urban planning and housing in Bordeaux

As though washed up here by nearby waters, rises the hulk of the World War II submarine base.
Beside us, other remains of the shipwreck: some small constructions that have to be integrated into the project (see ‘A’ in grey model photo lower down the page).

The water table is very high. We cannot excavate to build car parks.

The architects designed two storeys right across the plot, introducing the car parks at the centre and arranging dwellings around them, with services along the front.

In this case, the floor is porticoed, drawing the perspective from the street towards the old submarine base. Three volumes are arranged on this platform.

(B) is very low (2 floors), and metal. A small, shiny animal that accompanies the existing dwellings.

(D) A concrete-walled block that follows the limits of the plot and defines the urban from towards its sides.

(E) The centre is an open, communal garden, offering views and sunlight to the dwellings behind.

The whole, seen from the old port, is mobile and rather jaunty.

Like the old ships that are beached there, waiting to be broken up.

Bassins à flot Housing Bordeaux – Building Information

Author: Josep Lluis Mateo – mateoarquitectura
Competition: 2010 (First prize, invited competition)
Project: 2010-11
Construction: 2012-16
Location: Block B9, Bàssins-à-flot, Bordeaux (France)
Client: Kaufman & Broad
Surface: 30,000 m2 of urban planning and 10,000 m2 of housing block

Team:
Project leader: Laurent Baudelot
Project team: Till von Mackensen, Blanca Lora-Tamayo, Èlia Canadell, Maria Güell, Sara Dordas, Àlex Vilar, Marta Gual, Anna Profitós, Lu Xiao, José G. Perpiñá, Frédéric Géraud, Mireia Luzárraga Site management: Xavier Monclús
Photo: Luc Boegly and Jean-François Tremege

Bassins à flot Housing in Bordeaux images / information received 070617 from Josep Lluís Mateo architect

Mateo Arquitectura

Location: Bassins à flot, Bordeaux, France, western Europe