Avenue Anatole Complex
La Valette du Var, France
competition 2023
program: Development of a housing complex and improvements on avenue Anatole France in the municipality of La Valette-du-Var: 263 housing units
> total area: 14.297 m2 – 263 residences
– new: 12.017 m2 – 202 residences
– requalification: 2.280 m2 – 61 residences
client: SPLM – Société Publique Locale Méditerranée
Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia with
landscape: Après la Pluie
structural engineering and economy control office: BETOM Ingénierie
systems engineering: DEXO
environmental engineering: Cap Terre
demolition, redevelopment: LMPR
acoustics: Atelier Rouch
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia & Diorama
La Valette du Var, France
competition 2023
program: Development of a housing complex and improvements on avenue Anatole France in the municipality of La Valette-du-Var: 263 housing units
> total area: 14.297 m2 – 263 residences
– new: 12.017 m2 – 202 residences
– requalification: 2.280 m2 – 61 residences
client: SPLM – Société Publique Locale Méditerranée
Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia with
landscape: Après la Pluie
structural engineering and economy control office: BETOM Ingénierie
systems engineering: DEXO
environmental engineering: Cap Terre
demolition, redevelopment: LMPR
acoustics: Atelier Rouch
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia & Diorama
“Responsibility and generosity: these are the terms with which we imagined this piece of the city of La Valette-du-Var, and this complex that proposes architecture as a tool for perceiving reality, its context, and the city.” AF
Our design for the Anatole France site aims to create relationships and connections between the site’s characteristic elements.
We seek to connect temporality with the existing: the time of the city, the time of the landscape, and the time of life and exchange.
Therefore, we propose an urban system that is generous with the landscape, capable of creating a sequence and rhythm in which each building passes the baton to the next. This continuity gives coherence to the ensemble while ensuring that each building has its own specific character.
The result is an ensemble that dialogues with light and sun. We designed our project with a virtuous topography on the ground, a vertical elevation that breaks with the current horizontality that threatened to close the block in on itself.
Our approach is based on two fundamental themes: simplicity and richness created by the play of light and shadow that the urban structure brings to the site.
A generous approach to the perimeter of the site means creating a large central garden and taking advantage of the block’s landscape benefits.
Responsibility and generosity: these are the terms with which we imagined this piece of the city of La Valette-du-Var, and this complex that proposes architecture as a tool for perceiving reality, its context, and the city.
We seek to connect temporality with the existing: the time of the city, the time of the landscape, and the time of life and exchange.
Therefore, we propose an urban system that is generous with the landscape, capable of creating a sequence and rhythm in which each building passes the baton to the next. This continuity gives coherence to the ensemble while ensuring that each building has its own specific character.
The result is an ensemble that dialogues with light and sun. We designed our project with a virtuous topography on the ground, a vertical elevation that breaks with the current horizontality that threatened to close the block in on itself.
Our approach is based on two fundamental themes: simplicity and richness created by the play of light and shadow that the urban structure brings to the site.
A generous approach to the perimeter of the site means creating a large central garden and taking advantage of the block’s landscape benefits.
Responsibility and generosity: these are the terms with which we imagined this piece of the city of La Valette-du-Var, and this complex that proposes architecture as a tool for perceiving reality, its context, and the city.