47 Housing Units in Crespières

In the northwest of Crespières town center, on a former agricultural wasteland surrounded by pavilions, a new piece of city has come to life. The site, initially open and rural, completes the urbanization and was designed to accompany the natural extension of the municipality.

The project proposes 47 owner-occupied housing units, combining 15 single-family houses and 32 intermediate dwellings. But beyond the mere numbers, the ambition is to reconsider what it means to live in the countryside in the 21st century. The design team has thus worked on urban form, architecture, landscape and daily uses alike, to create a contemporary hamlet, rooted in its territory.

The new neighborhood first integrates with its environment: pedestrian connections, visual openings and a measured layout naturally extend the existing urban fabric. The diversity of typologies responds to today's lifestyles (families, young households, seniors) and anticipates tomorrow's needs. Each dwelling benefits from true privacy thanks to large plots and special attention paid to the boundaries between public and private spaces.

Finally, the project was developed in dialogue with the broader landscape: building orientation, vegetation framework, consideration of prevailing winds... everything contributes to preserving the sensory relationship with the territory, essential in a peri-urban context.

Thus a neighborhood takes shape where one inhabits both the countryside, the neighborhood and the landscape: a place where proximity, nature and collective life find a new balance.