Habitat 3121

Habi­tat 3121 is con­ceived as a ver­ti­cal land­scape for Cre­morne, address­ing the lack of ground-lev­el green­ery by dis­trib­ut­ing plant­i­ng and out­door space across the full height of the build­ing. Rather than treat­ing land­scape as an add-on, it is embed­ded into the sec­tion, with each lev­el giv­en access to ter­races, gar­dens and exter­nal rooms that extend every­day use outdoors.

The build­ing draws from its indus­tri­al con­text through a robust archi­tec­tur­al lan­guage, with cylin­dri­cal con­crete forms ref­er­enc­ing the sur­round­ing silo-like struc­tures. This heav­ier frame­work is soft­ened through lay­ered plant­i­ng that cas­cades across the façade and ter­races, reduc­ing the scale of the build­ing and intro­duc­ing a more human, tac­tile quality.

Pro­gram­mat­i­cal­ly, the project oper­ates as a hybrid work­place sup­port­ed by shared and social infra­struc­ture. Office ten­an­cies are paired with com­mu­nal busi­ness lounge spaces and flex­i­ble work­ing areas, while the ground floor com­bines arrival, hos­pi­tal­i­ty and co-work­ing func­tions with­in a more open, acti­vat­ed thresh­old. Beneath, end-of-trip facil­i­ties and well­ness ameni­ties, includ­ing sauna and bathing spaces, sup­port a broad­er lifestyle-ori­ent­ed work­place environment.

Across the build­ing, land­scape and pro­gram are inter­wo­ven to cre­ate a con­tin­u­ous expe­ri­ence of work and nature, shift­ing the typol­o­gy from a con­ven­tion­al com­mer­cial build­ing to a con­nect­ed, inhab­it­able frame­work of gar­dens and shared spaces.