var linkwithin_site_id = 519459; French studio Maison Edouard François has completed a new housing scheme in Champigny-sur-Marne. You could be forgiven for thinking it looks like a pile of houses, because in fact it is! Maison Edouard François has designed a hodge-podge of building units- townhouses at the bottom, a housing block from the 1950s in the middle, and single family homes balanced on the roof. The studio was inspired by the ensemble of building on the site built in the 1970s: a large zone of housing filled with towers and multi-story housing blocks near the old town centre.
The scheme provides 114 new residences as well as new retail shops and alleys that open up the building units. The studio won the €14.3 millionproject in a competition in 2006.
