Féval Tower Rennes Apartments, Offices, Retail Building, French Architecture, Brittany Mixed-Use Development Images
Féval Tower in Rennes
13 Dec 2021
Design: JDS Architects in collaboration with local architects Maurer & Gilbert and Paris offices SMAC and Think Tank
Location: Rennes, Brittany, north west France

The Féval Tower development is located next to and comprises of the new station inaugurated in July 2019. The city?s new express train connections have cut travel times to its neighbours and the capital by nearly half, enthusing many to develop business with or relocate to Brittany?s epicentre.

Féval Tower, Rennes
Within this Game Of Urban Thrones, Samsic, the region?s success story employing 90000, has set to relocate its headquarters to the Blériot-Féval site and steer its development, in collaboration with the developers from Bati-Armor and Rennes Municipality?s agencies. The site is divided in 4 plots and coordinated by JDSA in collaboration with local architects Maurer & Gilbert and Paris offices SMAC and Think Tank.

The Féval Tower acts as the masterplan?s geographic and gravity centrepiece, offering 211 new apartments to the city. The project design by JDSA promotes densification as a response to urban sprawl.

The tower proposal manipulates the masterplan?s density to propose on ground level a stepped public space that invites the pedestrian to climb its base. Various commercial addresses will compose this base, on which the residential pr...