The perspective of time has helped us to arrive to a more global approach of the dwellings in the future.
The Plateau Central building is raised in a neighbourhood mainly composed by an immigrant population and closely related to a marketplace.
The growth of the population and the economic situation brings to us a scenario of the house unit getting smaller and smaller; while the current pandemic is making us reflect about how important is to have an outdoor space where you can expand the limits of each home and enjoy the open-air. Spaces that are linked to the collective housing and allow conviviality and the feeling of being part of a community.
At ‘Plateau Central Collective Housing and Market’ project, the apartments are in the centre of a system which includes urban agriculture on the roofs, terraces as common spaces for the neighbours, and the presence of a food market inside the volume of the same building – conceived not only as a commercial space but also as a community space and a tool for a larger social integration.
The experience of this periphery of Paris points out the fact that the activities linked with food are the most efficient way to get an active participation from the collective.
And a market is the perfect scenario for this purpose.
