Paris Macrolot

Location: Paris, France
Project year: 2019
Building Type: Residential Project
(Collective Housing Architecture)
Critic: Kerim Salom

A macrolot project provides an alternative solution for peaceful living in a crowded city. Combining urbanists’ propositions with architects’ distinctive designs creates harmony in diversity within the macrolot space, as the design process begins with the macrolevel of the city and scales down to the microlevel of the structure.

So long as the cultural, historical, and geographical contexts of the site are respected, macrolot projects have the potential to elevate the perspective of the city. These same concerns were used as guiding principles for the urbanists of Nouveau Belleville who created links between Boulevard de Belleville, Parc de Belleville, and the historical Église catholique Notre-Dame-de-la Croix de Ménilmontant.

Futhurmore, macrolots provide the city with necessary and desirable functionalities such as public spaces and green areas, in this case, the project contribute to the urban context by creating a vegetal link from Rue des Couronnes to Parc de Belleville