Comments on: Residence à Epinay sur Seine by ECDM

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:06:50 +0000

Please proofread the translated text before posting…it really doesn’t serve what otherwise looks like a good project with even better intentions, very well.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:33:14 +0000

Bet that the car park bollards (the black ones!!!) are no longer standing up… nice one! Some poor guy is wishing he didn’t drive that day.

By: pierre

pierre — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:44:03 +0000

women in distress? nice colours, interesting designs, some clever ideas but i would not want to live there….not for long though…which is not important in the buildings criteria. women is distress can’t be forever, students grow out of being a student, they come and go…. and teachers always gets transferred…..pity those who don’t.

By: a. Diare

a. Diare — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:33:43 +0000

I like the look and the colors. Wish they added more larger glass windows to the apartments… it’d go nice with the colors and make it look far less like a cell block. Definitely creative though..

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:55:13 +0000

I’m not sure. It’s just a normal double loaded apartment strategy. The strategy is more decorative than architectural, no? All the clever materiality and application of color and (actually pretty sharp) detailing won’t likely make it much more humane or better urbanistically.

Also, I’m not sure how “the project reintroduces and prolong the morphology of the fragmented which structured the district, by four buildings of differentiated writings.”