Olympe de Gouges University Residence, Toulouse Building, French Student Housing, Architecture Images

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse

Student Housing Development in Occitanie, France design by ppa • architectures

post updated 29 July 2021 ; 22 Jan 2019

Design: ppa • architectures

Location: Toulouse, Occitanie region, southern France

Olympe de Gouges University Residence Building

The project works at three scales: the campus, the buildings, the lodging.

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse
photo © Philippe Ruault

Olympe de Gouges University Residence

Its ambition is to create an active and welcoming place to live, where each resident can appropriate their own space.

An open, urban project, an active campus. Two groups of buildings free up a park, which addresses the neighbourhood and encompasses the various student residences (1,000 lodgings in all). In the lee of the hill and extending out from the large central meadow, a communal living building houses rooms for student organizations. These facilities provide a structure for student activity and social life, nurturing conditions for an active, community campus.

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse
photos © Philippe Ruault

A simple, rational and frugal architecture, generous buildings. The new buildings are suspended above the ground to facilitate the communal use of the campus. Each building wraps around a central garden with broad walkways (a vertical extension to the campus). Generous and welcoming, they provide access to and extend the private space of the individual lodgings.

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse
photos © Antoine Seguin

The restrained architecture of the project deliberately leaves space for individual appropriation by developing potential spaces. To the ancient, cloister-like arrangement of the volumes, replies the abstraction of the panels, which serve both as shutters and as cladding to the facade. Their dimensions rhythm the entire project, changing the perception of scale and diluting the beehive effect that might otherwise arise in the repetitive stacking of 615 lodgings. Always changing, this outer skin reacts as much to the reflections of its surroundings, as to the habits of its occupants.

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse
photo © Antoine Seguin

A Comfortable and Flexible Lodging
A living space to be appropriated. The lodging (16 m2) is a standard space that has not been over prescribed (neither cell, nor miniature apartment) so as to remain freely appropriable by its occupant. It is furnished so as to enable the reorganization for individual use and lifestyles, while freeing up living space.

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse
photos © Antoine Seguin

The Ponsan typeface was specially designed for the signage of the Crous Olympe de Gouges university residence. It was then offered to the administrative staff and students for use in internal communication on the campus.

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse
photos © Philippe Ruault

Olympe de Gouges University Residence, Toulouse – Building Information

Team
ppa • architectures (main architect) / scalene architectes (associate architect) / Almudever Fabrique d’Architecture (associate architect) / ATP (landscape) / a+b (furniture and lodging design) / documents (signage) / Egis (engineers) / Execo (cost control & construction site supervision)

ppa • architectures endeavours – particularly within the rapidly developing conurbation of Toulouse in France – to create urban fabric through buildings and urban projects whose varied programmes and contexts are systematically analyzed and questioned from the double point of view of both use and construction.

The practice tries to adapt neutral form, of flexible and frugal construction, to specific architectural and urban proposals that are generous and comfortable.

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse
photos © Antoine Seguin

This ambitious and pragmatic intention is based on a collaborative way of working, multidisciplinary and open, in order to adapt to today’s conditions for useful urbanism and architecture.

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse
photo © Philippe Ruault

Photography: Philippe Ruault and Antoine Seguin

Olympe de Gouges University Residence in Toulouse images / information received 220119

Location: Toulouse, France, western Europe

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