Cosmo Residence / Taillandier Architectes Associés

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The façades are punctuated by the alternation of two volumes with different material treatments. The volumes covered with a fine white plaster are topped with a sloping roof, creating a setback in the façade compared to the brick volumes with flat roofs. These setbacks provide loggia for each apartment facing the living rooms. To avoid any gable effect on the street, the façades turn towards the two ends of the plot.Text description provided by the architects.The project is located on a plot southwest ofToulouse, behind the ring road. The neighborhood where the project is situated lies at the entrance to the Mirail and Pradettes areas. Currently adjacent to a subdivision named Le Fourtou, the plot runs along St Simon Road. Unlike the surrounding estates, this neighborhood exhibits a suburban style of urban planning. The project plans to demolish the three office buildings to construct four groups of collective residential buildings with one floor above ground level (R+1).The alternation between flat roofs and sloping metal roofs intentionally gives a less linear appearance to the volumes so that they integrate better with suburban urbanism and architecture. This design allows for beautiful ceiling heights in the living rooms. Buildings A, B, and C are oriented perpendicularly to the St Simon road and the St Martory path. Thus, we reduce the linear façade along the streets and avoid direct sightlines within the plot. Building D will extend to the end of the plot along the pedestrian St Martory path to avoid creating a linear built frontage.The staggered layout chosen provides open spaces that can accommodate several communal gardens for the condominium and allows for generous green spaces that highlight the omnipresence of nature. These gardens will be the subject of careful landscaping. They will be designed as real shared spaces and meeting places for the residents.