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Bottière Chenaie by Block Architects
French studio Block Architects have completed a building Nantes, France, clad in multi-coloured stripes derived from the aesthetics of vegetable farms.
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Called Bottière Chenaie, the block is constructed on land formerly used for farming vegetables.
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The concrete building is clad in vertical, corrugated stripes of colour and comprises housing, public facilities and a school.
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The mixed-use facilities are placed close together to promote an urban neighborhood.
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The project has a maximum of five stories and lies within a rectangular block.
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Photos are by Stéphane Chalmeau.
Here's some more information from Block Architects:
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The project was established in an urban project located in France at the North East of the city of Nantes inside an old growing area.
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The project proposes a strong identity, by redrawing this landscape.
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The architectural design of the project proposes to reactivate the aesthetics linked to the vegetable production industry.
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The urban block consists in a five compact levels building housing, public facilities and a school.
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The entire plan folds in the geometry of the block and household spaces external courses.
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Different parts of the program fit to articulate the complex areas of the project.
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A concrete shell displays a geometry own alignment on the street and urban structure in attendance.
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Dubbed a translucent skin echoing the past of the vegetable production industry, this layer provides a vibration chromatic facades and increases the expression of verticality of the project.
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This principle is proposed for the entire project. Thus writing is a homogeneous unit block of a building mixed-use: education - housing - activities…
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This formal intention, in addition to its impact, symbolically shows the quality program of urban neighbourhoods.
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It consists generous image of a "architecture - signal", in resonance with the landscape.
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Authors :
Block Architects: Principal architects
Guinée Potin Architects: associate architects
Collaborators: Solen Nico, Celine Monvoisin, Benoit Moreira
Engineer: Iosis, Itac, Gotec
School: City of Nantes (France)
Housing and public facilities : Harmonie Habitat (France)
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