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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. CRISTAL RIVIERA in ZAC EURORENNES, RENNES by a/LTA architectesOctober 24th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: a/LTA architectes The Féval city-block is a significant part of the renovation program performed around the Rennes rail-station. The urban project is developed by FGP and Territores. The project suggests to develop a new territory to connect the two sides of the city involving changes in landscape and topography. The railway road passes through urban structures like a river would pass through giant tectonic monuments in a form of large crystals.  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes
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 Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes The project consists of three buildings made by 3 different architects, the whole project is structured around a landscape rift. The “crystals” are carved in a way to make the inner territory be reachable by sunlight.  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes We defined a section of the office by calibrating floors to 3.40m slab to slab. Savings in the height of each floor added up to one additional floor for the 28m building. Thus this solution created a large area which gives us the flexibility to \”cut\” large volumes to produce fancy crystal-like shapes making all composition more spectacular. This ability to resize volumes allows us to create a valley where the three buildings meet on the Féval Street and allow daylight to enter into the center of the block.  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes Success of the Féval city-block depends heavily on the quality of the infrastructure on the ground floors of the three buildings. We paid particular attention to increasing accessibility to the inner spaces from the outside.  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes  Image Courtesy © a/LTA architectes
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