REDEFINE HOUSING ROOM BY ROOM: UNITÉ(S)
Park Semi (Park): UNITÉ(S) is a public housing and social housing project for 40 households, built on a site of about 2,800m2 in Dijon, France. Please give us a brief description of the UNITÉ(S) project and the key elements behind its development.
Sophie Delhay (Delhay): UNITÉ(S) is an experimental project developed in Dijon that undermines a number of common preconceptions and stereotypes about housing. This project addresses the subject of housing from the vantage point of the individual room and the declassification of spaces. It considers housing as a collection of rooms of identical size, freely networked, without hierarchy and without assignment, leading to an emancipated vision for living conditions and human relationships.
Park: What is the regional character of the site? And, who are the residents of the housing development?
Delhay: The project is located in the ecodistrict Via-Romana in Dijon, a city of 150,000 inhabitants in the centre of France. This new neighbourhood is based on the principles
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