Le Millénium

Rennes, France

Here, it is all about creating an area for city living within a loose urban fabric with lots of available space.

We took our inspiration from the tall urban forms around it and designed a communal structure wound around a planted courtyard garden.

The building’s different layers highlight its wide range of typologies. 
It is a very unusual shape. The residential base combines half-buried parking spaces, modern split-level family flats with separate entrances, and halls arranged around a central patio. The smooth metal-clad corona houses the majority of the various kinds of flats. They have outdoor loggias overlooking the garden.

Program
Construction of 120 apartments

Location
Le Millénium
ZAC La Courrouze
Rennes, France

Schedule
Delivery: 2013

Client
Icade Capri

Urban designers
Bernardo Secchi et Paola Vigano

Project management
Lead architect: Hamonic+Masson & Associés

Engineering
All trades and quantity surveyor: BETOM

Photographer
Eric Sempé + Julien Lanoo

Cost
10 M€ excl. tax.

Floor Area
9 400 m²

Environmental approach
Bâtiment Basse Consommation - Effinergie