Nantes CG44 in France by Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés

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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.

Nantes CG44 in France by Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés

December 6th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés

The future home of the Loire Atlantique’s regional council fits into the current urban planning project in the Île de Nantes district and adheres to the master plan, i.e. an «active base»; a «new two-story building» on a level with the railroad where freer planning is established; a block plan based on fragmenting volumes and variable heights; volume shapes favorable to accessible exterior terraces, loggias of varying shapes and gaps in the built-up volumes enabling street views of the inner courtyard; lastly the creation of an in-ground garden beds around a protected green space.

Image Courtesy © Sergio Grazia

Architects: Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés
Project: Nantes CG44
Location: 26, Avenue Victor Hugo 44000 Nantes, France
Photography: Sergio Grazia, Stephane Chalmeau
Associated Architects: Berranger Vincent
Project Team: Jean-Pierre Lévêque, Stefan Tuchila, Guillaume Chartier, Elfie Roinsard
Team MOE: ETCO (BET Fluids / Structure / economy), ACV (Acoustics), Quartet (OPC), Arcora / CEFF (BET Facades), RFRE (BET HQE), TN + (Landscaping)
Project Manager: Real Estate Department, Departmental Council of Loire Atlantique
Cost: € 26 million H.T.
Surface Area: 14,270 m2 (SHON)
Competition: June 2007
Delivery: November 2015

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The size of the building project (14,000 sq. meters) in relation to the size of the land (4,900 sq. m) led to the adoption of an «H»-shaped that made it possible to set it back from alignment with the boulevard and to bring out transparencies between the forecourt and the protected wooded area on the west side.

The outer layer alternates glass with differing kinds of metallic cladding generating astonishing tones of reflecting or matt matter, bluish, bronze or golden that plays with the fluctuating light of the Loire Valley.

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Tags: France, Nantes

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