Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes
07/11/2018.
[Nantes] France
metalocus, ÁNGEL TORNE
metalocus, ÁNGEL TORNE
The Paris office of Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes just delivered a multipurpose complex comprised of 4 buildings, housing the headquarters of the Nantes Métropole “proximity” center, an office of Pôle Emploi (national employment agency) and housing. The project’s varied program of high quality architectural and environmental design creates a link between the inner city of Nantes and its periphery.
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. Photograph by Takuji Shimmura
Urban site plan. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Site plan. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Ground floor plan. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Second level floor plan. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Fifth level floor plan. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Hall section. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Hall section. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Detail façade. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Detail façade. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Diagram. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Diagram. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Construction details. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Construction details. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Construction details. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Construction details. Nantes Haluchère by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
The project designed by Thibaud Babled, in this complex urban edge area, adopts different volumes that are elegantly articulated with the environment. A complex and minimal double skin, which helps to stabilize the structure of the city on this edge.
Surprise the interior of the buildings, with perfect constructions (see the stairs of the central courtyard) and with some prefabricated systems also executed that look like classic elements. An architecture that surprises, without being strident.
Surprise the interior of the buildings, with perfect constructions (see the stairs of the central courtyard) and with some prefabricated systems also executed that look like classic elements. An architecture that surprises, without being strident.
Description of project by Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes
At this pivotal juncture of city and periphery, Thibaud Babled chose to build a strong statement at the intersection of the high traffic volume of the boulevard and a hub of tram lines. The project grows out of the concept of a new metropolitan multi-modal center at the intersection of main road and rail axes.
The complex of buildings includes some forty units of housing as well as offices to be occupied by Nantes Métropole and Pôle Emploi.
The architecture creates a fluctuating balance determined by the time of day and the seasons. The result is a low-tech cluster without complex technical systems or onerous and uncertain constraints regarding maintenance and upkeep.
The architect chose to use glass and aluminum to create a cube with high quality, homogeneous façades. This pioneering use of materials forms a hollowed out and luminous structure whose limits are determined by a ring of prefabricated concrete columns organized around a central atrium covered with a glass roof.
The interior plane of this envelope is structural and composed of insulated precast concrete walls, forming a water- and airtight envelope. The exterior plane is a porous envelope whose rhythm varies from one floor to the next. On contact with the street level it is composed of denser alternating voids and solids ensuring greater privacy for the offices, while becoming more open, as if in a vibrating rhythm of a blossom-like movement.
The project also has a more private built line at its point of contact with the pedestrian way and a lobby carpeted with a garden running up to the tram line. The offices are essentially distributed in the virtually perfect geometry of a cube, with a layout organized into concentric rings.
Inspiration for the project arose from the blending of an architectural vision, construction logic, quality of uses and environmental virtues. The result is a building that expresses a desire for balance between offices and housing units, gathered around an airy and spacious garden.
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Architects
Thibaud Babled Architects Urbanists Architects.- Thibaud Babled. Project leaders.- Simona Dirvariu.
Collaborators
BET TCE.- SIBAT. BET Acoustics.- Acoustic Agreement (VENATHEC Group). Geotechnical BET.- GEOTEC WEST. Structural work, VRD, plantations.-Demathieu Bard. Exterior carpentry, glass roof, double skin, metal structure, locksmith.- Girard Hervouet. Sealed.- Soprema. Interior carpentry.- Atelier Isac. Technical floor.- Denco. Roof / Dubbing / Partition.- Pinard. Ground.- Rossi. Painting, Signaling.- A2PN Decor. Elevators.- ABH. Electricity.- Snee. Heating / Ventilation / Plumbing / Sanitaryware.- Work platform Anvolia.- Skyaccess.
Project Management
Yves Rolin & Simona Dirvariu
Client
Nantes Métropoles and CIF Group (co-owners)
Program
Headquarters of PELNM, offices for employment center and 37 homes.
Dates
Contest.- 2013. Work time.- 21 months. Delivery.- 2018
Building costs
€ 8,500,000 without taxes
Area
5,105 m² Gross area
Venue
222 boulevard Jules Verne 44300 Nantes, France
Architectes Urbanistes Thibaud Babled
Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes. After 15 years of shared conceptions within BNR (Babled Nouvet Reynaud Architectes), and some beautiful adventures that allowed us to travel Europe and Hexagon, I chose in 2011 to extend this common path by creating Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes.
Thibaud Babled. After high school in Bayonne and a two-year stint at the architecture school of Toulouse, he is going to try my luck in Italy. Despite several unsuccessful attempts (Erasmus was then a humanist a little forgotten ...), he joins in September 1986 the venerable University Institute of Architecture of Venice where I spend four years, discovering the most secret folds of the lagoon city.
Playing with an insolent luck, He then joins for two years Cairo and Upper Egypt, participating in the work of the team of Christian Leblanc, Egyptologist with a big heart. He shares the daily life of researchers at the Louvre and the CNRS around projects to excavate and preserve monuments as magnificent as the Valley of the Queens or the Ramesseum at Thebes West. Having eaten my white bread, He comes back to Europe and pass the state exam opening the doors opening the doors of the profession. Working for a while in various Parisian architecture agencies (P.L. Faloci, P. Berger, F. Hammoutène, François & Lewis).
He won in 1994 the Europan 3 contest, which will takes place after a long and exciting process in Saintes. At the same time, he is involved in teaching through the architecture schools of Clermont Ferrand and Nancy, before joining Paris La Villette. The architectural firm BNR takes flight and will be the main field of experimentation 2011. Surrounded by a team of ten people, he continues the adventure by founding in 2011 a new agency, ... they are Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes!
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Orientation, if it is always accompanied by teamwork, is today naturally more personal, tinged with more intimate experiences.
Trained in the Venetian crucible of the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, under the attentive and critical eye of the great figures of the school (Mr. Tafuri, V. Gregotti, B. Secchi, A. Rossi back), I reminds me of the unforgettable anchoring that this training period gave me with respect to the pleasures of the city and their urban issues.
The agency's approach finds expression sites on various scales, both architectural, urban and landscape. This practice leading to constant back-and-forth between concrete implementation and strategic reflection on the city and its transformations, has been recognized on various occasions: Winner of Europan 3, mention at the Prix de la première de la Moniteur 2002, laureate of the Palmarès Young Urban Planners 2007 testify to the full spectrum of the agency's fields of investigation.
Based in Paris and with a regional office in Bayonne, the agency intervenes in the field of housing, educational and cultural facilities as in the urban project and development.
Thibaud Babled. After high school in Bayonne and a two-year stint at the architecture school of Toulouse, he is going to try my luck in Italy. Despite several unsuccessful attempts (Erasmus was then a humanist a little forgotten ...), he joins in September 1986 the venerable University Institute of Architecture of Venice where I spend four years, discovering the most secret folds of the lagoon city.
Playing with an insolent luck, He then joins for two years Cairo and Upper Egypt, participating in the work of the team of Christian Leblanc, Egyptologist with a big heart. He shares the daily life of researchers at the Louvre and the CNRS around projects to excavate and preserve monuments as magnificent as the Valley of the Queens or the Ramesseum at Thebes West. Having eaten my white bread, He comes back to Europe and pass the state exam opening the doors opening the doors of the profession. Working for a while in various Parisian architecture agencies (P.L. Faloci, P. Berger, F. Hammoutène, François & Lewis).
He won in 1994 the Europan 3 contest, which will takes place after a long and exciting process in Saintes. At the same time, he is involved in teaching through the architecture schools of Clermont Ferrand and Nancy, before joining Paris La Villette. The architectural firm BNR takes flight and will be the main field of experimentation 2011. Surrounded by a team of ten people, he continues the adventure by founding in 2011 a new agency, ... they are Thibaud Babled Architectes Urbanistes!
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Orientation, if it is always accompanied by teamwork, is today naturally more personal, tinged with more intimate experiences.
Trained in the Venetian crucible of the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, under the attentive and critical eye of the great figures of the school (Mr. Tafuri, V. Gregotti, B. Secchi, A. Rossi back), I reminds me of the unforgettable anchoring that this training period gave me with respect to the pleasures of the city and their urban issues.
The agency's approach finds expression sites on various scales, both architectural, urban and landscape. This practice leading to constant back-and-forth between concrete implementation and strategic reflection on the city and its transformations, has been recognized on various occasions: Winner of Europan 3, mention at the Prix de la première de la Moniteur 2002, laureate of the Palmarès Young Urban Planners 2007 testify to the full spectrum of the agency's fields of investigation.
Based in Paris and with a regional office in Bayonne, the agency intervenes in the field of housing, educational and cultural facilities as in the urban project and development.
ARCHITECTES BABLED NOUVET REYNAUD
Babled Nouvet Reynaud Architectes was formed in 1996 after the competition Europan 3 and continued for 15 years working on significant projects on the architectural and urban plan. It has been awarded different prizes that have marked the stages of a gradual maturation.
