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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.
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.
Program
New construction of 76 co-living homes + climbing room + gym + offices + restaurant + square (public space) + a Mediterranean greenhouse + parking lots
Location
Quai Saint-Serge Site, Angers
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
Team
Cesar Silva Urdaneta, Valentin Damville, Lisa Cépisul and Ghiles Belkessam










