Bridging The Boulevard Périphérique
Paris, France
Bridging the Boulevard Périphérique envisions housing as connective tissue, stitching together the historic fabric of Paris with its surrounding suburbs. Developed as part of a competition to reimagine a bus depot site in the 17th arrondissement, the project addresses the pressing demand for housing in the city while transforming one of its most divisive urban barriers into an opportunity for connection.
The design introduces a series of structural “bars” spanning across the Périphérique. These frames serve as the supporting armature for prefabricated apartment units, allowing for phased, adaptable construction that can respond to evolving housing needs. Each bar is carefully oriented to align with the geometry of the major thoroughfares that define the site, ensuring the new development is both responsive to its immediate context and legible within the broader urban fabric.
By physically bridging the highway, the project creates more than a new housing typology, it produces a residential living bridge, a threshold where Paris meets its suburbs. This act of connection reimagines the Périphérique not as a dividing line but as a shared ground for urban life, binding together communities that have long been separated by infrastructure.