Apartments

Maison Commune is a built manifesto and an open process with its inhabitants. It is a small housing project that defines and highlights a sequence of shared spaces and the joy of everyday life at all levels and without any excuse. It is concrete evidence and a direct learning tool for how we want to live together.

The residential complex is located in a neighborhood designed by the office of architect Jaime Lerner in an urban void in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. The design anticipated the expansion of the urban layout with the creation of high-quality public spaces and a linear park that runs along a conservation area situated along one of the neighborhood’s boundaries. According to the office, the project’s intention was to promote the use of public space by incorporating into its limits all the uses and activities that characterize urban ambiance.