On the left margin of the Seine River, the 15th arrondissement of Paris – also known as Vaugirard – is the most populated city district, where a varied residential fabric coexists with extensive parks and one of the tallest skyscrapers. The intervention is inscribed within the broader project to remodel the old railway maintenance workshop, blending infrastructure with domesticity and injecting new life, accessibility, and community into the area. The project introduces a new street, traversing a previously inaccessible part of the city. Inspired by the studio’s research on Parisian housing types, the building unfolds a long facade, segmented into volumes with setbacks and carved recessions, creating a rhythmic sculptural form. The integration of overlapping functions and types determine the position of entrances and communication cores. The complex offers over a hundred apartments across five floors, all benefitting from optimal orientations, good ventilation, and generous balconies or loggias. A metal facade wraps the building, with steel varnished to reference Parisian rooftops, while the window proportions are a contemporary interpretation of the Haussmannian style...[+]