The residential building Résidence La Quadrata, recently completed by Sophie Delhay Architecte in Dijon, takes the room, rather than the dwelling, as its basic unit. Each room is set on the same square module, with a total surface of 13.6 square meters. A living room area corresponds to two modules, bedrooms and loggias to one module, kitchens and bathrooms to half a module.
As Delhay explains, Résidence La Quadrata is comprised of “240 rooms, 43 of which are open air”. An important conceptual change is being operated here, as the focus of attention is shifted from the specificities of each housing solution available within the complex (from the single family house to different sizes of flats), to the consistency of a module shared by all, and for all equipped and refined according to the same standards.
Sophie Delhay Architecte designs a house made of 240 rooms
Résidence La Quadrata is a residential building based on a single, universal module of 13.6 square meters, shared by all the dwelling typologies.
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, Dijon, France, 2019
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, site plan
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, ground floor plan
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, first floor plan
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, second floor plan
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, north elevation
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, east elevation
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, south elevation
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, west elevation
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, section
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, section
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, detail sections of a dwelling unit
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, plans of dwelling types
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, plans of dwelling types
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, detail axonometric view of the "inhabited façade" towards the street
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, detail axonometric view of the "inhabited façade" towards the courtyard
Sophie Delhay Architecte, Résidence La Quadrata, "inhabited façade"
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- Alessandro Benetti
- 12 August 2020
- Dijon, France
- Sophie Delhay Architecte
- residential building
- 2019
Windows are approximately the same size on all elevations; passages between rooms are oversized; sliding panels are preferred over conventional doors; electrical outlets are evenly spread over all the rooms. These and other solutions emphasize the universal character of these modules, whose function will be defined by their final users. Façades are always three-dimensional and “inhabited”. Delhay highlights how storage areas framing the windows have two functions: on the one side, they allow to leave the interiors unobstructed by too many pieces of furniture; on the other side, they dissuade from covering glazed surfaces with objects of various kinds. This is an interesting strategy to suggest dwellers a virtuous use of their building, which would respect one of its main qualities, to their full advantage.
- Résidence La Quadrata
- residential building
- Dijon, France
- Sophie Delhay Architecte
- 2019