Urban Quartz, New Rennes Office Building, French Commercial Architecture Project, Building Images
Urban Quartz Offices in Rennes
1 Sep 2020
Urban Quartz Offices
Design: Hamonic+Masson & Associates
Location: Rennes, Brittany, France

Near the Multimodal Exchange Center (railway-bus-metro-bus station), Urban Quartz is initiating the urban invention of EuroRennes. It is therefore taking advantage of the efficient transport network which serves the sector. The 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.All of the three buildings are shaped in a unique way, ressembling a canyon, through wich 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. 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 a balance and coherence in its implementation.The three buildings were designed to provid...