Nantes
179 student housing units, Vatel school, Vatel café, Parkings
Balancing the composition on either side of the Cours Brossette, the stud 5 has a morphology resulting from superposition of two volumes.
Their offset (16 meters to the west and 4 to the east) marks the distance from the large complexes of the neighboring city and the other buildings of the operation.
The 4 levels of the base include the Vatel café, access to CSR, parking and 2 floors of the residence. The high volume includes the rest of the residences of the student housing.
The design of the facade rests on the repetition of a single element: the bay. The regularity and the size of the openings make it possible not to reduce the image of the building to the only expression of its function, and give it a more urban aspect. Work on the frame of the void, on the rigor of structural concrete ribs, on the depths of field continues the play of transparencies, reflections and visual breakthroughs, and contributes to the creation of a building in dialogue with its external environment . Particular attention has been paid to the expression of materiality. All the facades are made of sand-colored concrete, in harmony with the adjacent buildings. Extending the basic module and substituting the perforated tinted bronze sheet for the glass, stages 1 and 2 make a visual transition between the large windows of the DRC business premises and the R + 3 housing.