The Monolith, residential project in Lyon, France

November 26, 2010 Category: Housing, Residential

This project attempts to preserve the qualities and values of the historic city of Lyon Confluence by redefining a new, contemporaneous lifestyle, guided by two strong and converging aspirations: a modern environment and a healthy quality of life, taking into account the requirements for the implementation of sustainable development.

The project is slice of urbanity, social realism, transversal proposal for diversity; a synthetic and ambiguous architecture with a common denominator: same quality of façades for all the included programs, the same envelope without any hierarchy or social expressionism, a picture showing a cautious neutrality towards any functional determinism.

ECDM’s portion of the building is an element of sedimentation, embedded in a complex and rigorous urban composition. The purpose is the inclusion of a building in an urban landscape, a work to the service of the lot, in direct intersection with the surrounding buildings.

The Monolith, residential project design Exterior 1