Cité Internationale Paul Ric?ur, Rennes Building, French Apartment Architecture, Images
Cité Internationale Paul Ric?ur in Rennes
Housing Development, France Рdesign by H̩rault Arnod Architectes
15 Mar 2017
Cité Internationale Paul Ric?ur
Design: Hérault Arnod Architectes
Location: Rennes, France
Cité Internationale Paul Ric?ur

The plot is located at the interface between two very different urban logics: on one side, a modern district made up of wide public spaces and large-sized buildings, on the other, the historical town-centre consisting of smaller slate-roof buildings. One of the project?s challenges is to articulate the traditional city and the modern city scales, using both the organisation of its volumes and the layout of its functions.
 

The Cité Internationale is an hybrid building, it brings together three different owners and four independent programmes:

– The Sports Center to the south on the Esplanade side (Ville de Rennes).

РThe UBL (Universit̩ de Bretagne Loire) offices with their entrances on the west fa̤ade.

РThe residence for foreign academics with its entrance hall on the north fa̤ade (CROUS).

– The university cafeteria, at the equipment?s gravity centre (CROUS).

 

The project organises the coexistence of the four programmes inside a single, simple and compact envelope. The building consists in a base, located in the alignment of the streets, which houses the programmes open to the public, and a hi...