Housing Projects
Taller de Arquitectura is unusual among prominent global architecture firms for its longstanding focus on large housing projects, including some for lower-income families. It has designed more than 2,000 housing units in France, 1,500 in Spain, 400 in Sweden, 350 in the Netherlands, including in the Parisian Villes Nouvelles as Les Espaces d’Abraxas in Marne-la-Vallée, Les Arcades du Lac in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Le Belvedere St. Christophe in Cergy-Pontoise, Les Echelles du Baroque in Paris, Monchyplein in The Hague, the project Pa Soder Crescent, also known as Bofill's bage, in Stockholm, and more recently mixed-use projects in Savona (Italy).
The design studies for precast concrete units or for the moulds for in situ shuttering, prompted by the need to obtain a large number of different forms from the combination of a very limited number of units contributed, in the 1980s, to the Taller’s affirmation of the validity of classical forms and geometry in contemporary architecture.
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