Key：Metrostudio Design Research

项目概况:

Cardinet Quintessence withan area of 6115 square meters, in order to meet the ambitious requirements in terms of comfort, of performance (low energy consumption building – 50 kWh/m2 per year not including produced photovoltaic energy), and of economy, designers have imagined a building in an innovative form, use and function. The project lets the parcenter in the heart of the block. The designer suggests a compact building with a parc all around, extending to the heart of the next blocks. A compactbuilding is an ecological and an economical one. Our building is ring shapedaround a vast and luminous yard. All the apartments therefore enjoy a double exposition.The exterior and exterior envelopes have light thick facades that allow to reduce thermal bridges as well as to integrate an important insulating layer. On the exterior a textured metal protection « clothes » the envelope, whereas the yardfacade is covered in a prismatic reflecting skin made in aluminum sheets. When perforated, those sheets function as absorbing baffles as to assure a pleasant space to share and live.