The brief of this non-profit organization (Association loi 1901), established in Paris in 1996, is to promote architecture. Under this umbrella, Périphériques seeks to explore and tackle problems arising in present-day architectural production, with a concern for creating critical links within a fragmented, individualized generation, marked by recession. In laying claim to an authored architecture that is committed and uncompromising, they produce many exhibitions, publications and architectural projects, as an association. What Périphériques proposes for this Parisian site adjoining the future green belt that will link Boulevard Richard Lenoir with the St. Ambroise church, is thirty-six housing units brought together in small units of 7-8 homes. Bearing in mind the hypothesis of creating a public garden on the adjacent lot, they are using the entitlement to build to gather the units along the cul-de-sac; these units are thus concentrated in the maximum possible volume, so as to free up the planted courtyards opening on to the garden. The block-like typology thus offers access to the garden situated behind, while at the same time staggering the thresholds between public places and private spaces. In these blocks, there are two apartments per floor, and all have two to three different expositions. Their organization borrows a traditional day/night partition.	(F)
	Périphériques Paillard (Louis) (1960), Jumeau (Anne-Françoise) (1962) Marin-Trottin (Emmanuelle) (1967), Trottin (David) (1965)
	• 36 logements pour 5 maisons Paris, 2000