ETERNICITY

120 Logements ZAC Leon Blum Issy les Moulineaux

Awards: Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris

Client: Sogeprom

Year: 2017

Budget: 18 M€

Team: SANE ARCHITECTURE | AIA ARCHITECTES | AIA INGÉNIERIE | JDB

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INVENTONS LA METROPOLE DU GRAND PARIS1

Architecture that resists efficiency as a form of erasure, making space for attachment, memory, and everyday vulnerability.

Eternicity is a mixed-use residential project in Issy-les-Moulineaux, conceived as an architectural response to time, mobility, and urban uncertainty. Located within the ZAC Léon Blum and connected to the future Grand Paris Express, the project treats housing not as a fixed object, but as an adaptive urban system—capable of absorbing change without losing coherence.

The architecture is structured around a rigorous modular grid and a hybrid wood–concrete structure, enabling apartments to expand, contract, and recombine over time. Units shift between short stays, temporary living, and long-term occupation, responding to evolving family structures, work patterns, and economic conditions. Permanence is no longer spatial; it is temporal.

The landscape is not an accessory but an active architectural layer. A sequence of vegetated terraces, green façades, and a planted inner courtyard cascades through the project, reinforcing biodiversity, microclimatic regulation, and visual continuity at every level. The heart of the block operates as a collective landscape—an inhabited void that concentrates social life while buffering the city. Vegetation becomes infrastructure: thermal regulator, acoustic filter, and social catalyst.

Designed within a HQE (Haute Qualité Environnementale) approach, Eternicity integrates low-carbon construction, bioclimatic orientation, high-performance envelopes, and extensive vegetal systems. The hybrid structure reduces embodied carbon, while green roofs and façades contribute to urban cooling, rainwater management, and improved air quality. The building is conceived as a resource-conscious system, balancing environmental performance with spatial intensity.

Eternicity assembles housing, services, and shared programs into a single inhabited infrastructure—workspaces, concierge services, childcare, wellness, and local retail activate the ground and densify everyday life. More than a building, Eternicity proposes a scalable model for metropolitan housing, where architecture operates as a framework for evolving lives rather than a container for fixed programs.

A rigorous modular structure hosts a multiplicity of individual rhythms, temporalities, and scenarios.

Order is not imposed to control life, but to allow different lives to coexist without friction.

SOCIAL INNOVATION

Social stability emerges not from permanence of form, but from the freedom to adapt within the same shared framework.

A place where lives are allowed to change without leaving:

vulnerability as a design condition

The architecture integrates time as a material, accepting that stories, families, and uses will overlap and diverge.

What remains constant is not the program, but the shared pulse of a place built to evolve.