Project:Β 360Β° View Tower
Architects:Β LAN Architecture
Location:Β Nantes, France
Area:Β 373,830 sq ft floor space
Photographs by:Β Courtesy ofΒ LAN Architecture
360Β° View Tower by LAN Architecture
TheΒ 360Β° View Tower is an 18-story tower located in the town of Nantes in France. It offers panoramic views of the Brosette site with which the transformation of the Vincent-Gache Boulevard is complete. This brand new project was developed and delivered byΒ LAN ArchitectureΒ in April 2018.
LAN originated from the design of a master plan and the grand urban principles underpinning this project, and with the oο¬ce as the lead contractor of a consortium of architects who have worked on this ensemble in order to adjust forms and dimensions able to house the program while strengthening the design of the public space.
The site is at the intersection of several formal systems: buildings dating from the 1970s condominiums based on the model of large housing projects or βestates,β an oο¬ce complex with courtyards and gardens which was never entirely completed and the intervention of Alexandre Chemetoff, architect of the ο¬rst phase of the islands urban renewal. This heterogeneous context called for an approach bringing greater cohesion, as proposed by Anne-Mie Depuydt and Marcel Smets, the urban planners in charge of the Γle de Nantes. Thus, the new buildings enclose the public space by creating fronts.
Despite the fact this lot is entirely privately owned, all the outdoor spaces are open to the city. The district having become an entirely pedestrian zone is traversed by a central avenue; the backbone of the island, it leads to the core area of the project : a broad plaza in front of the tower, now renamed the β360Β° Viewβ, will become a public plaza ceded to the city.
The 360Β° View Tower
The 360Β° View Tower represents the end and the beginning of the Brossette block. The building is the highest of all those comprising the Brossette city block, culminating at 55 meters with 18 stories above the ground ο¬oor. The 360Β° View Tower takes full advantage of its height, opening broadly onto its context and especially onto the Loire River and the cityβs historic center. The building serves as a signal for the development.
The project is located on the northern end of the lot. It contains 79 apartments as well as commercial space on the ground ο¬oor. Beneο¬ting from its exceptional location on banks of the Loire, 84% of the apartments offer views overlooking the river, the remaining part (16%) being oriented in a southerly direction overlooking the Place Brossette.
The buildingβs structure (stress-bearing faΓ§ade + column and beam) allows for great ο¬exibility in ο¬oorplans, the distribution of typologies being adaptable according to the requirements of future buyers. The ο¬oor space dedicated to the housing part of the program amounts to 4,821 mΒ² of usable ο¬oor space.
Most of the apartments beneο¬t from spacious loggias, extending living areas toward the outside. Each apartment is organized around a large loggia, a genuine extension of the interior living space toward the outside. They are set back from one floor to the next.
In summer, these loggias help ensure ventilation of the apartments. The ο¬xed cladding and the sliding shutters guarantee the privacy of loggias and offer protection from the wind.
