Student Housing in Paris-Saclay

Issue
07-08/2021 Small Houses
Author
Andrew Ayers
Source
DETAIL
Task
New construction
Location
France, Paris-Saclay
Architecture
Bruther von Stéphanie Bru
Architecture
Baukunst um Adrien Verschuere
The student housing occupies three sides of an as-yet-incomplete city block. In the future, the open parking levels could be converted to other uses.
© Bruther © Maxime Delvaux
At their student dorm/parking garage on the Paris-Saclay research campus, Bruther and Baukunst deploy consummate artifice to produce a building of remarkable concision and limpidity.
The student housing occupies three sides of an as-yet-incomplete city block. In the future, the open parking levels could be converted to other uses.
© Bruther © Maxime Delvaux