TRANSFORMATION OF A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING, SAINT-NAZAIRE_LACATON & VASSAL

Transformation of a residential building, Saint-Nazaire
Lacaton & Vassal
La Chesnaie, Saint-Nazaire, France

Transformation of a residential building, Saint-Nazaire, La Chesnaie
Architects: Lacaton & Vassal architectes

Program : Transformation a Block of 40 Apartments + 40 New Apartments

Location: Saint-Nazaire, France
Year: 2014 (2006)
Type: transformation
Status: under construction
Size: 10 282 m2
Client: SILENE OPAC de Saint-Nazaire
Cost: 6,6 M€ HT/net (val. 2011)

Architects Lacaton & Vassal (Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal) with Frédéric Druot

Architect Collaborator: Julien Callot

Site Supervision: Mabire et Reich

Metal Structure: CESMA

Concrete Structure: PLBI

Systems Engineers: AREA

Cost Estimate: Vincent Pourtau

The block of 3 rue des Ajoncs is a part of a highrise estate, La Chesnaie, characteristic of the urban planning of the 70s, based on the massive development of modern housing in the context of providing apartments for all and an optimistic vision of the future.

Today the district has no more attractiveness and is depreciated, towards the inhabitants of the city.

The image is degraded.

These situations, here as somewhere else, lead the authorities to demolish, to disintegrate, to drill, to spread, to recompose, to redraw the mass plans, without cares for the existing.

We do not like this method. We think that to demolish is an error, and that we can make differently.

Because if we look at the district attentively, objectively, from the inside, we see qualities and capacities there:

. the inhabitants, the green spaces, the beautiful trees,

. the modernity,

. solid constructions, rather well preserved,

. the beautiful views far away in front of,

. an urban situation close to the city center, well connected by transport

. a good management of the buildings by the owner, closer of the inhabitants, in order to solve their problems,

. the conviviality, and often people rooted, attached to their district, but bothered by the bad image which sticks on it.

All this has a value, a sufficient value to consider that the existing situation has assets and precious qualities, which are a consequent support in a radical and positive transformation.

The transformation of the building 3 rue des Ajoncs goes into this attitude, as an action of longer term, which will re - qualify durably housing and all the district.

Dominique Macel

Lacaton & Vassal

Silène

Lacaton & Vassal

Philippe Ruault

Lacaton & Vassal

Philippe Ruault

web LACATON&VASSAL: http://www.lacatonvassal.com/

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