Art'chipel
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Architects: OXO Architectes
Engineering consultants: Horizons, ECOBAT, POUGET Consultants, Lamoureux Acoustics, CERRETTI, Even Conseil, NEOPAYSAGES, AVLS, Efectis, Qualiconsult
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In the heart of Marseille’s 8th arrondissement, Art’chipel is a natural oasis with a rich plant heritage within a densely populated area. The project is defined by the search for a balance between people and nature, which is the only way to build a truly sustainable city. Art’chipel is designed to fit harmoniously and sustainably into the neighbourhood’s urban fabric, while respecting existing biodiversity. Art’chipel is also resolutely forward-looking, proposing innovative solutions for the development of better individual and collective living.
We propose a project that has included in its DNA a future mutability and a certain transformation in order to adapt to future practices and needs. Our project reflects a succession of buildings that merge into the landscape, its morphological design allows for both sun protection and natural cooling of each dwelling to avoid the systematic use of air conditioning in hot southern climates. This results in a significant energy saving at the project scale. All the apartments are built on the same principles: flexibility, natural light and outdoor spaces – as we wanted to create a link between the private and the communal, spaces of intimacy and places that encourage exchange and sharing in an exceptional living environment.
The innovations offered in this project respond to both societal and environmental issues:
– Camouflage in nature, buildings reflecting and respecting the site’s existing biodiversity
– Cool patios allowing for a greater number of through dwellings
– Circulation and common areas naturally lit and ventilated thanks to the patios
– Private outdoor spaces for all dwellings, adding 30% to interior surfaces
– Shared outdoor spaces for all dwellings, adding 10% to interior surfaces
– Bioclimatic facades generating protected outdoor living spaces, allowing air circulation between exterior facades and patios, minimizing thermal impact and thus avoiding air conditioning in buildings
– A permeable double skin composed of an envelope of shading devices, protecting from the sun and vis-à-vis.
– BDM label (“Bâtiment Durable Méditerranéen”: Mediterranean Sustainable Building).
OXO Architectes
OXO Architectes is a Paris-based studio, founded by Manal Rachdi in 2008, operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. OXO has created a reputation for completing buildings that are as programmatically and sustainably innovative, as they are cost and resource conscious.
Manal Rachdi has created OXO Architects with the purpose of developing architectural systems that transform research and practice analysis, as well as some theoretical issues, into design forces. Through several award-winning projects, Manal Rachdi has established international reputation among architects of his time. He stands out among his generation for combining thoughtful analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and sense of humor to his practice. His international notoriety has been settled through projects that follow avant-garde in technical and programmatic functions, and are reasonable in resources and costs.
