Les Hauts de Sévigné, New Rennes Building, French Architecture, Launay Group Building Photos
Arty Les Hauts de Sévigné
31 May 2021
Design: a/LTA architectes
Location: Cesson-Sévigné, Rennes, Brittany, north west France
les Hauts de Sévigné, Cesson-Sévigné
Construction of 40 social housing units – plot C5 – Les Hauts de Sévigné
Client: Néotoa
Photos © Charly Broyez
Arty – 40 social housing units
The “Les Hauts de Sévigné” development project, led by the Launay Group, is located between the Rennes-Paris railroad line, the Route de Paris and the Rigourdière business park. This sector at the entrance to the city is today mainly composed of activities. Eventually, it will be home to approximately 650 housing units and 12,000m² of business floor space.
The lot awarded to Néotoa and on which we have been led to reflect, is located in the western part and on the northern limit. It takes advantage of its position in a belvedere and offers a panoramic view of the large bocage landscape and the Vilaine valley to the north.
The building is fragmented into two main volumes: one to the north, which is aligned with the street, and the second, which follows the alignment of the property line with lot C7 to the south.
The body of the building does not vary in the floors for the sake of thermal performance. It is the terraces that change from one level to another: sometimes wide, sometimes deep, they “blur” the limits of the building. The railings are filled with bleached glass. The slab nosing and the anodized aluminum handrail have a unique thickness and help to erase the scale of the current levels.
The last levels in the attic are set back from the façade. They express the relationship to the sky by the fragmentation of the built volume.
The treatment of the facades is homogeneous according to the orientation and the different levels, without a hierarchy of orientation. The masonry parts are in painted concrete of light color.
The eastern part of the ground floor houses parking spaces. These spaces are covered by a vegetated concrete roof treated in the continuity of the terraces. The single car access is located to the east of the lot. It serves the access ramp to the basement (22 spaces) and 24 parking spaces located under the building on the ground floor.
The main pedestrian access to the units is located at the North/West corner of the lot. A common space treated as a paved square serves the generously glazed entrance hall and the two-wheeler room sheltered behind a lock in continuity with the fences common to all the blocks. Pedestrian gates are placed in the fence to allow direct access to the private gardens and to the contiguous housing from the public space.
Arty, Les Hauts de Sévigné in Rennes, France – Building Information
Place: les Hauts de Sévigné_Cesson-Sévigné (35)
Client: Néotoa
Planner: Groupe Launay
Urban planner: Atelier Loyer + Ker Anna paysage
Architects: a/LTA le trionnaire – le chapelain
members in charge Nolwenn Caillard, Jorge Martin Sanchez
Status: Delivered 2020
Surface: 2.745 m²
Program: Social housing / 40 units
Consultants:
Economist: Cabinet LEMONNIER
Fluids engineering: THALEM
Structure engineering: OUEST STRUCTURES
site management: APHIPRO
Inspection: SOCOTEC
©a/LTA
Photography © Charly Broyez
Arty Les Hauts de Sévigné in Rennes, Brittany images / information received 310521 from a/LTA architectes
Location: Rennes, Brittany, northwestern France, north west Europe
New Buildings in Rennes
Rennes Architectural Designs
Ascension Paysagère, Rennes, Brittany
Design: MVRDV
photo © Ossip van Duivenbodee
Ascension Paysagère, Rennes
Project Berkeley-Oxford, ZAC Via Silva, Cesson Sévigné, Ille-et-Vilaine department, Rennes, Brittany, north west France
Design: ALTA Architectes – Urbanistes
photo © Stephane Chalmeau
Project Berkeley-Oxford, Cesson Sévigné
Westside Office Building
Design: a/LTA architectes
photograph © Charly Broyez
Westside Office Building, Rennes
Urban Quartz
Design: Hamonic+Masson & Associates
photos : Takuji Shimmura and Stéphane Chalmeau
Urban Quartz Offices in Rennes
The Beauregard Rescue Center, rue Doyen Leroy
Architects: Jean-Pierre Lott
photos : Stéphane Chalmeau
The Beauregard Rescue Center Rennes Building
Metropole’s Crematorium Building
Design: PLAN01 architects
photos : Stéphane Chalmeau
Metropole’s Crematorium in Rennes
Rennes Residential Tower Competition, Blériot-Féval site, Eurorennes development
Architects: Team JDSA with local architects Maurer & Gilbert and Paris offices SMAC and Think Tank
image courtesy of JDSA architects
Rennes Residential Tower Competition
Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande
Architects: Alvaro Siza Vieira
photo : Joao Morgado
Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande Rennes building
Ilot de l’Octroi Housing
Design: MVRDV, architects
image : l’Autre Image, Paris
Ilot de l’Octroi Housing in Rennes
Housing in Rennes
Design: Philippe Gazeau
Housing in la Courrouze – Rennes
New Buildings in France
French Architectural Projects
French Architecture Design – chronological list
French Architect Offices – design firm listings
Northwest French Architecture – Selection
Alveole 14 – Culture Centre
Design: LIN Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi, Berlin/Paris
Saint-Nazaire building
Grand Musée d’Art
Design: Stanton Williams Architects
Grand Musée d’Art Nantes : international design competition
French Architecture – Selection
Comments / photos for the Arty Les Hauts de Sévigné in Rennes design by a/LTA architectes page welcome
