Bridging The Boulevard — John Bezemes

View from the Boulevard Périphérique

Parisien point of view

Suburban point of view

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Section through residential bars

Relationship of building form to Parisien street fabric

Aerial view

Google Street View

Bridging The Boulevard Périphérique

Paris, France

2014

Bridging the Boulevard Périphérique uses housing to bridge between the city of Paris and its suburbs. As part of a competition to rethink a large bus depot site in the 17th arrondissement, Bridging the Boulevard Périphérique responds to the need for more housing in Paris by creating a series of structural "bars" that can be filled with prefabricated apartment units. Each of these bars responds to the unique urban fabric of Paris by being oriented to the geometry of the major thoroughfares that surround the site. These structural bars bridge over the highway creating a residential, living bridge with the suburbs on one end and the city on the other.