LA SERRE D’ISSY by MVRDV

In a time of the "instant city" and fast-paced communication in the contemporary world, the buffer space for contemplation and return to nature becomes an essential feature of our urban environment. In Issy-les-Moulineaux, one of the main dynamic poles of the south of Métropole du Grand Paris, there was a unique site to experiment and develop a vision of the future consisting of housing: a 111 apartment greenhouse building set to become an urban oasis that gathers and shelters, a new place offering new ways of life to develop in a continuously evaluating metropole.
By taking part in the Inventons la Metropole Grand Paris competition, MVRDV were given the opportunity to expand further on ideas to do with dwelling innovation. This challenged and pushed further boundaries of architecture, making it a hybrid, daring and a new ground for the proliferation of new lifestyles for future inhabitants. “La Serre d’Issy’’, as the project is titled, consists of a micro-village within the city, a haven of greenery that is also an explosion of vegetation overturning the norm of traditional two-dimensional housing experiences. By adding an extra vertical dimension representing the symbolic social ties that bind neighbours together, thus forming a space of conviviality.
To realise this vision, the project builds on a nudge approach that seeks the creation of ‘‘vicinity’s units’’ scaled at the size of the building and assembled to interact with each other to recreate inside, an envelope to animate whole neighbourhoods. In-between spaces, half urban and half domestic host new functions and programs that are slowly disappearing from our cities. To achieve this ‘’vertical village’’ underneath the generous greenhouse, MVRDV worked with a Jenga concept so that blocks stacked to generate large terraces where vegetation can grow and spread all around the project. This also provides gardens and protective canopies on the roof.
The green lantern design embodies the renewal and recovery of nature in the city, on the mineral avenue de Verdun.
CREDITS:
Design: MVRDV - Winy Maas, Jacob Van Rijs, Nathalie De Vries
Design team: Winy Maas, Bertrand Schippan with Catherine Drieux, Herman Gaarman, Evgenia Zioga, Aurélien Goepp, Ana Melgarejo López, Solène de Bouteiller, Daniel Diez and Maxime Richaud
Visualization team: Antonio Luca Coco and Davide Calabro
Partners
Client: OGIC, FEDERAL DEVELOPPEMENT
Technical partners: Franck Boutte Sustainable engineers, BASE Landscaper, VP & Green Engineering, BMF Consultants, Peutz & Associés, BTP consultants
Innovation partners: ARP-Astrance, BVA (Nudge), Stimergy, Ubiant, CoWork.io
Investor: Soppec
Images & movie: ENGRAM studio

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Having to watch this for homework. Really love the project and the execution 👍

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I did not know there was something that beautiful in my country! :O

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amazing rendering work!!!!love it!!!!!

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Wonderful.

[@y-nn33]

I want an apartment in this building :o

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