Metamorphosis

Site Quai Saint-Serge, Angers

The city of Angers initiated our reflection on this exceptional site.

This project will be emblematic of the city’s ambition that animates all national and European cities. Innovation is a conception tool that transforms unknown places and territories. Innovation in urban landscape is about finding new ways of living in harmony with the public space.

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Innovation is a tool for attractivity. This research provides new programme, technical and spatial solutions, which allow the project to become a strong signal.

Our project is a synthesis that will implant itself in the site and become a new typology. We are going to create adventure, surprise and emotions alongside our willingness to conceive a project that represents the city’s ambitions.

The context combined with this exceptional site enabled our team to enhance the project in order to propose a new way of living in Angers.

We have introduced fluidity by linking filled and empty spaces and treating them as different topographical levels, avoiding ruptures. The building therefore becomes an extruded piece of the territory.

It is therefore a confluence project. We do not wish to differentiate or to provoke, but to create a dialogue and to reconnect in order to invent. This exchange will create a pioneering project, a symbol of the 21st century: the project Métamorphose.

Visit of the project under construction (September 2023) © CETRAC:

competition

Program
New construction of 76 co-living homes + climbing room + gym + offices + restaurant + square (public space) + a Mediterranean greenhouse + parking lots

Calendar
Delivery in 2024

Maîtrise d’ouvrage

Ville
Angers

Aménageur
ALTER

Urbaniste
Agence Grether

Promoteur
Groupe Giboire

Maîtrise d’œuvre 

Architecte mandataire
Hamonic+Masson & Associés

BET structure
Atelier Masse

BET fluides thermique
Isocrate

BET économie
Cetrac

BET acoustique
ITAC

BET HQE
Franck Boutté

Paysagiste
BASE

Images et film
Luxigon

Surface
24 500 m²

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