Situated in the center of Montpellier, along the Lez River, this 64-unit residential building lets the vegetation of a nearby park spread to it, its facade becoming the geological substratum of a vertical garden. With a curved floor plan, the structure of concrete panels is concealed behind an enclosure of gabions filled with rocks of varying diameter, of the same kind used to contain the river edge. Fertilizers and seeds were at execution stage thrown onto this petrous shell – which is stepped in an eastern direction – so that in the near future the facades will become actual botanical tapestries. But the true immersion of the dwellings in nature takes place in the terraces that mark the convex side of the building, a series of cubicles held up by golden tripods that serve to enlarge the domestic spaces in the form of rooms opening out to the sky...
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