Renée Gailhoustet’s Cité Spinoza. Photos by Anthony Saroufim.
A leftwing architect, Gailhoustet is best known for her work around social housing.
ArchDaily wrote about this project: As stated on Frac Center-Val de Loire’s website, the raw concrete building contains 80 duplex social housing units, a young workers’ hostel, and collective services, all distributed by interior streets. Gailhoustet wanted a hybrid building with a program mix. He fragmented the structure into three bars linked by a central vertical circulation. The activity rooms, the workshops, the medico-psycho-pedagogical center, as well as the children’s library, are all located on the first floor. The facilities are structurally independent, as they are composed of modular elements that can be adapted and enlarged as needed.
Lion Fighting a Snake Chlorite Vessel with inscription, “Inanna and the Serpent.” Temple of Inanna, Nippur, Iraq. Early Dynastic II/III Period. ca. 2600-2400 BCE.
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