Barrault Pressacco

B12, in the Ferney Genève Innovation development zone is located close to Ferney-Voltaire’s town center, in the Paimboeuf sector. Its three buildings are part of a sequence of objects that define the first edge of the new neighborhood. While autonomous and differentiated by their form, they share a common identity and are set within a wooded landscape. The block develops a green and shaded character, creating transparency and visual connections between the buildings.

The project’s ambition is to establish a strong connection between each apartment and the shared garden. The buildings are defined by large corner loggias and a circulation route that always maintains contact with natural light and views of the landscape.

All three buildings are based on a common constructive system. Around the cores, an initial structural perimeter is developed in the form of a concrete column-slab structure. At the heart of each building, it accommodates all wet rooms and distribution landings. A lighter ring of timber floors is attached to the edges of the concrete slabs and supported on the exterior by timber-framed load-bearing façades. This ring houses exclusively living spaces, bedrooms, and loggias, and is clad with a ventilated timber façade.

This system is adapted from one building to the next, responding to three archetypes — the tower, the bar, and the patio building — giving each its own distinctive typological character.