St.Jacques-de-la-Lande

Location
Rennes, FR
Client
Societé Nationale Immobilière (SNI), CAPRI Atlantique
Initiated
2004
Completion
2012
Size
25.000 sqm
Project Team, Photos & Collaborators
Pier Dijkema, Marylène Gallon, Laurent Gravier, Leo Harders, Kees Kaan, Vincent Panhuysen, Dikkie Scipio

Photos
Maryléne Gallon, Christian Richters

Collaborators
Pranlas-Descours Architect & Associates (URBAN PLAN) Atelier Bruel - Delmar Paysagistes (LANDSCAPE) FRES architectes, Laurent Gravier + Sara Martin Camara (COUNTERPART ARCHITECT)

In St.Jacques-de-la-Lande a complex with 200 apartments has been designed for the ZAC de la Morinais area, a master plan developed by Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours where the layout of private and public areas provides functional versatility and social diversity within the city.
The project aligns itself with the main axes through the neighbourhood, which achieves a beneficial exchange between the public and private spaces. The buildings with white façades on the street side help to integrate the development into the area. Metal balustrades (a particularly French feature) that strictly adhere to the lines of the concrete structure ensure the unity of the whole design and provide a certain dynamic grandeur and expressivity.
The brown façades of the islands have a more domestic character and assert their difference and originality through colour contrast and legible individual dwellings on the courtyard side.