Design Characteristics of Public Housing in France for the Sustainable Development : Focused on Social Housing in Paris

Purpose: Since 2000, France has set its national goal of sustainable development and has been enthusiastically pursuing greenhouse gas reduction policies in the construction and urbanism areas with its 2050 carbon neutral goal. In addition to utilization of new and renewable energy, new initiatives are applied in various sectors such as building facades, materials, structures, land use and urban planning systems. New certification systems have been also established. Therefore, this study aims to derive design characteristics reflected in French public housing with the pursuit of the sustainable development. Method: Concerning the transformation of certification system, literature review consists main method. The cases studies were analyzed including new constructions and remodeling apartments projects. Site visits and experts interviews are also used. Result: The French public housing projects present innovative and creative design attempts, because the operators present public aspects. Korean public housing has more than 30 years’ history and starts to recently be diversified in types and inhabitants. In this circumstance, Korean public housing needs to apply new design elements related to sustainability with implications of French public housing.