The Mistral residential complex is part of EuroMed, a mixed-use development built in Mar-seille on the grounds of the old port. In accordance with the masterplan, the complex pre-sents an urban scheme of a certain density; an intermediate volume made up of well-oriented horizontal prisms and an upper area in which the floors reduce their size so that all apartments benefit from long views, sunsets, and sea breezes. The development mixes so-cial housing and free-market housing, collective gardens and terraces, communal spaces and agricultural areas, and a system of accesses that does not segregate residents by social group. Construction-wise, the project uses basic technical systems, including a facade of light, perforated panels easy to manipulate by the users, generating a sequence of intermediate spaces that form a sort of parallel open-air housing. The loggias and facade ensemble turns each dwelling into a device for negotiating the meteorological conditions typical of Medite-rranean cities that oscillate from mild to stormy weather including the strong mistral, a northwesterly wind that blows from the coast towards the sea and lends the project its name...[+]