Hamonic + Masson & Associates

Urban Quartz Office Building

Urban Quartz Office Building
© Stéphane Chalmeau

URBAN QUARTZ OFFICE BUILDING

Hamonic + Masson & Associés + A/lta

CLIENT
Icade + Poste Immo

MANUFACTURERS
Alucoil, Grace, Polyrey, Tolartois, Wicona, Sammode

LANDSCAPE
La Plage, Guillaume Derrien

ENGINEERING
Betom

ACOUSTICS
Jean-paul Lamoureux

ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT
A/lta, A/lta, Le Chapelain

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Hamonic + Masson & Associés

ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH
Nf Hqe Très Bon

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Eléments Ingénieries

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Eiffage Construction

AREA
14000 M²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Rennes, France

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

Text description provided by architect.

Near the Multimodal Exchange Center (railway-bus-metro-bus station), "Urban Quartz" is initiating the urban invention of EuroRennes.

Urban Quartz Office Building
© Stéphane Chalmeau
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura

It is therefore taking advantage of the efficient transport network which serves the sector. Its location, strategic for an office program, meets the conditions for an integrated and lively business sector.

The urban development plan, drawn by FGP, is an invitation to a bold and radical architecture. Three chiseled buildings stand out in the railway landscape and change a regular simple skyline.

Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura

All of the three buildings are shaped in a unique way, resembling a canyon, through which the urban space infiltrates and lead us to discover an unexpected wild garden.

This extraordinary experience offers a lively, generous, and alternative interpretation of the office program.

Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura

The three buildings each take their own shape and character, which distinguishes "Urban Quartz" in the city skyline.

To adjust to each other and respond to their orientations, the three buildings transform, gain height or tilt, each turning towards urban breakthroughs.

This dynamic rhythm gives each volume its uniqueness and gives the whole balance and coherence in its implementation.

Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Stéphane Chalmeau
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Stéphane Chalmeau

The three buildings were designed to provide great flexibility towards its occupiers. They range from small start-ups to large companies.

The introduction of three walkways connecting buildings 1 and 2 contributes to this idea of flexibility, thus making it possible to offer a variable current floor from 500 to 1000m2 of the surface.

Urban Quartz Office Building
© Stéphane Chalmeau
Urban Quartz Office Building

The interaction between the project and its context is underlined by three "urban windows". These immense framings in the landscape occupy the prow of the constructions and interact with the city.

With a new architectural style and a configuration adapted to the local context, the "Urban Quartz" project offers an alternative to the generic and often agreed on, a vocabulary of office buildings.

Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura


Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Stéphane Chalmeau
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Stéphane Chalmeau


Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura
Urban Quartz Office Building
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Urban Quartz Office Building
© Takuji Shimmura


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