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The social housing scheme on Rue Coli, to the east of Montreuil, is set within a predominantly low-rise residential neighbourhood. The project organises 15 homes into four two-storey buildings, punctuated by gardens and linked by a pedestrian lane. This intermediate urban form, between individual house and collective building, creates permeability, articulates boundaries and introduces a measured density in continuity with the existing fabric.

All dwellings benefit from dual aspect, bringing together natural light, long views and cross-ventilation. The upper-level duplex units organise clear day/night sequences, suited to family use. The façades employ restrained, durable materials — timber cladding, naturally toned brick, wood-fibre insulation — whose inhabited depth provides both thermal performance and constructive coherence.

Together, the buildings form a domestic landscape in which architecture and planting respond to one another: gardens, the planted lane and shared thresholds extend the homes outwards. The project asserts a bioclimatic, context-driven approach, based on quality of use, control of the carbon footprint and the creation of a long-lasting living environment, finely tuned to its Montreuil context.

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