Village olympique by JLBG
The 1968 Winter Olympic games in Grenoble required housings for the athletes and their coaches.Maurice Novarina, a young architect that represented a modern architecture was chosen. He had to conceive 1,800 lodgings that should fit for the athletes and their coach but that should later be transformed into a district for social lodging, student apartments, home for young workers.
In order to make a "village look", he chose to build low buildings (4 levels) with wooden loggias and linked by footpath with a few 15 levels towers on the outskirts, in order to give enough lodging. There are collective services (schools, day nurseries, etc?) and free space so that it is not a "Grand Ensemble"
