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the concrete façades of LAN's student residences in paris relay stories of greek mythology
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the ‘grand paris’ project aims to transform the french capital’s (h!ps://www.designboom.com/tag/architecture-in-
paris/) metropolitan area into a 21st century city, while confirming its ranking among compe"ng interna"onal
megaci"es. as part of the ambi"ous masterplan, LAN (local architecture network)
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spanning two urban development zones, the école polytechnique district and the moulon district, the project seeks
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LAN (h!ps://www.lan-paris.com), who designed the scheme in collabora"on with clément vergély architectes
(h!p://www.vergelyarchitectes.com/) and landscape firm topotek (h!ps://www.topotek1.de/), saw the brief as an
opportunity to reconcile architecture and landscape. consequently, the project is based on a simple idea: densifying
the edge of the plot to create a park at the center. three black buildings, containing 70% of the residences, are
posi"oned linearly at the perimeter of the site, while five cylindrical structures within the park contain the remainder
of the program.
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