Lycée technique is a mid-rise residential building organized as a rectilinear volume rising nine stories high, set atop a visually porous podium. The podium expressed as a horizontal plinth, contains retail on the ground floor, a carpark on the mezzanine level as well as duplex apartments above with private direct access to the parking below through external stairs expressed on the façade. The residential floors articulated through a strong modular grid and layered façade composition, include various apartment typologies having their reception spaces protrude outwards through box-like balcony modules. A prominent central recess or sky-garden breaks the massing, introducing a semi-open communal space serving the inhabitants while providing visual Read More