Beaunier | France | 2025

Category: Multi-Family Housing
Architect: Alienor Bolelli, France
Architecture Office: Minuit Architectes
Lead Architect: Minuit Architectes
Design Team: Alienor Bolelli, Félix Borel, Maxime Eon, Joseph Vincent
Client: Paris Habitat
Photographer: Minuit Architectes   

The project examines a building located at 46 rue Beaunier in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, where the layout prioritizes the continuity and extension of the surrounding built masses, as well as the pursuit of multiple orientations that enhance air circulation. As a result, 100% of the building’s rooms benefit from natural light and natural ventilation, while 80% of the apartments are dual-aspect.

The project is currently being developed as a composition of several programmatic volumes: three of them are dedicated to the living spaces of the apartments, while two volumes accommodate the vertical circulation elements and the volume grouping all the wet rooms. The architecture produced by this composition offers a slender and vertical reading, minimizing the perception of mass and providing a sense of openness within this dense urban fabric.

As the project develops, the building establishes a dialogue with the surrounding historic constructions by reinterpreting traditional construction systems, particularly Haussmannian ones. The façades in dressed stone, sourced from the quarries of Noyant, support timber joist floors, which are carried within the core of the building by timber columns and beams.