Ôm housing building

Its purpose is to create an urban Feng Shui microcosm to meet a major boost in activity in this part of the city. It consists of 107 housing units including 79 units under a home-ownership scheme and 28 social housing units, as well as a shopping mall at the base level and a childcare center. The innovation consists in creating an intelligent and collaborative ecosystem that creates value through new uses, by welcoming new, stimulating, sustainable and agile practices that can harness the community. The housing units wind around a central patio that feeds four access galleries, one at each corner, through a single entrance porch on Verdun Avenue. This shared entrance, the center of balance of the building, reflects the teachings of Feng Shui providing great stability, simplicity and legibility to the site. As such, the building offers a coherent, continuous and subtly evolving image depending on the viewing angles and perspectives, creating a seamless and unified image of the social housing and privately-owned units. The Om building presented a genuine architectural challenge, and succeeded in proposing an entity perfectly integrated into the environment, while enhancing its landscape quality features. It defines a stratified structure, set in motion by the softness of its curves. The building has an earthen shell and gives a strong landscaping impression created by numerous outdoor terraces and a central patio designed as shared green space. It is an emblematic building that reflects Issy’s metropolitan architectural ambitions, standing as a new urban landmark through its distinctive architectural quality and innovative objectives, contributing to the district’s future vitality.