New Accommodation Facility for Alzheimer’s / Philippon-Kalt

   

Architects: Philippon-Kalt

Location: Paris, France

Area: 4,300 sqm

Year: 2012

Photographs: Hervé Abbadie, Grégoire Kalt, Luc Boegly

It focuses on creating a positive social and medical environment for elderly people with Alzheimer’s. This arrangement is unique in Paris and its development sheds new light on the management of residents with this disease in the context of a major renovation.

   

In an environment rich in protected buildings, the project creates a very original architectural signature in the heart of an urban block thanks to its Ductal® concrete double skin, an echo of the adjacent protected open space (EVP) garden.

 

After having delivered the first social housing building with a thermal solar panel façade in 2010 for Siemp on a listed site, the architects Philippon – Kalt have once again demonstrated their taste for experimentation in renovating Paris’ rue Blanche with an accommodation facility for elderly dependents (Etablissement d’hébergement pour les personnes âgées dépendantes EHPAD).

This building offers a response that goes beyond the exterior architecture and technical experimentation.

 

   

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