MAD's first European construction project, "UNIC" in Paris, France, is about to be completed. The project began to be designed in 2012, and after seven years, it will be completed in September this year; residents are expected to start moving in in November.

"UNIC" is adjacent to the Martin Luther King Park, a 10-hectare ecological green space, and is part of the overall planning of the new district of Clichy-Batignolles in Paris. MAD and the local French architectural firm Biecher Architectes won the international competition in 2012 to design private residences and social housing with shared podiums on a 2,350-square-meter site. Unlike the Haussmann-style apartments commonly seen in Paris, "UNIC" extends nature into the three-dimensional space of the building through variable setbacks, thus creating a new architectural space for interaction and dialogue between people and nature.

The "UNIC" building retreats from low to high, with rich layers, like multiple stacked courtyards, giving people a sense of organic flow and upward growth. "UNIC" blurs the boundary between architecture and nature through variable setbacks, allowing people and nature to have a dialogue through architecture, and bringing people and nature closer together in the city. The building is 13 stories high, and residents on the upper floors have a view of the Eiffel Tower. The podium shared by "UNIC" and another social housing building has set up a kindergarten, restaurant, supermarket, and subway station entrance and exit, bringing residents closer together with innovative spatial forms.

Located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, the new Clichy-Batignolles district is a new Parisian community designed by French and international architectural firms. It includes private residences, social housing, schools, kindergartens, commercial, and other business spaces. The community is divided into nine plots, each designed by nine teams including developers and architectural firms. In the context and vision of the overall planning of the community, in addition to internal discussions with cooperating architects, MAD also regularly participates in work seminars with developers, sociologists, and residents to explore how to work with surrounding projects to create a natural, organic and vibrant new Parisian community from different levels including community sustainable development, resource sharing, energy management and population distribution.