Parisian designer Stéphane Malka Architecture has suggested creating affordable housing in the French capital by adding prefabricated elements on top of and between existing buildings.
The “3box” system does not require the purchase of sites. Instead, the right to build is obtained in exchange for renovating existing buildings.
According to Stéphane Malka, the housing would cost 40% less than the usual market price and could be built quickly and cheaply in workshops.
— Global Construction Plan
"The units would work with a new Parisian law, the Loi ALUR, which states that 70,000 new dwellings should be built each year, and that rents should be stabilised."
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perfect for Oakland - I will present it at next SPUR meeting
http://www.spur.org/
Totally not a direct copy of Yona Freidman's urban infill megastructures... nope, no trace of that here.
perfect for Oakland - except we would use all those shipping containers that are pilling up
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