City in transition
industry housing

The Alfred Nobel project in Toulouse is located on a former Citroën dealership site: the aim is to convert this industrial wasteland, which marks the entrance to the city from the Avenue des États-Unis. Strategically located in a zone undergoing change, bordered by business activities and close to the MIN Toulouse, the block today marks the boundary between residential and industrial areas. This project is part of a long-term vision for the city, which aims to reconnect its various fragments through new paths dedicated to soft mobility.

These 642 homes – including a managed residence – are spread over 8 buildings whose design combines courteous architecture, respecting the templates of the existing neighboring pavilions, with an omnipresent landscape. The signal building, the first to be seen from the avenue, sets the tone for the project, with an R+11 height that expands to R+3 and opens onto the heart of the block, crossed by a landscaped pedestrian walkway.

Planted walkways
breathable surface

The volume of the buildings is designed to ensure the best possible quality of use for residents, from the cocoon of their home to the public spaces of the block. This building complex features progressive, evenly-spaced levels along the green path to let the sun shine through and encourage views from private outdoor spaces – balconies, loggias – and south-facing planted roof terraces. To the north, the U-shaped layout of the buildings frees up large tree-lined amenity cores, providing a place for freshness, encounters and biodiversity.

The whole area breathes thanks to the pedestrian walkways that create visual escapes from the main path, which structures the east-west crossing of the site. Bicycle racks are set along shrub borders at the edge of the plot, creating a plant mask that preserves the privacy of residents enjoying the gardens.

cool island
for southern climates

This new, livable, sustainable, renaturalized neighborhood features compact volumes to free up the largest possible volumes of open space, for the benefit of 450 new trees that will provide shade and coolness in summer – natural coolness that is much needed in Toulouse’s climate.

Reintroducing vegetation and biodiversity, reconstituting soils, absorbing water naturally and integrating soft modes of transport are all fundamental approaches to the project’s fight against urban heat islands, of which the planted and tree-lined path – the central axis of the project contributing to the natural ventilation of its heart – will be the backbone.

PROJECT TEAM

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Lead architect: ANMA
Associate architect: MR3A
Associate architect: V2S
Structure: INGEDOC
Fluide, thermique : DEXO
VRD : Yantris
Dépollution : Arcagee

STUDIES
Alexandre Maréchal, Clémence Bertrand, Élise Marc, Fabian Estirac, Chloé Coudraud, Ksénia Tolkacheva

CHANTIER
Bruno Isambert

TECHNICAL SHEET

STATUS Under construction

PROJECT MANAGEMENT Kaufman & Broad

DELIVERY2027

SURFACE 35,699 m² SP

WORKS VALUE 45.5 M€ EXCL. TAX

CONSTRUCTION CARBON INDEX 730.10 kg eq. CO2 / m²

PERSPECTIVES Metrochrome

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