Over more than a hundred years, the property has transformed from a natural lake area to a built shoreline green belt for recreational activities through infilling and construction of the harbor basin. A linear, narrow building structure responds to the sensitive urban seam of different urban patterns, scales, and open spaces, running parallel to the back of the railway and freeing up the public park space at the shore. With minimal footprint, it develops over five floors and thus orients itself to the scale and morphology of the nearby industrial buildings.
The idea of a collective, densified form of living and the context shape the building: On the back side is an open access layer greened with hanging plants, which acts as a filter to the railway. On the lake side, the floor slabs extend out to "garden rooms" placed in the park. The missing private outdoor space on the ground floor is compensated by collective gardens on the roof. On the ground floor, a Rue Intérieur makes the building perceivable as a unit.
In cross-section, the apartments interlock vertically into the transverse wall typology of the building. The extra-high rooms and the loggia rooms create a high individual quality without diminishing that of the public space.
