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Alstom Warehouses, Nantes Higher School of Fine Arts
Alstom Warehouses, Nantes Higher School of Fine Arts
Nantes, France
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Alstom Warehouses, Nantes Higher School of Fine Arts
Nantes, France
Project Featured on Oct 20, 2023
Project of the Day on Oct 20, 2023
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
“We intended to open this urban enclave to create a climate of proximity and synergy that didn’t exist yet. The threefold urban work on the arts esplanade, the two new pedestrian streets, and the passageways, enables to create large open public spaces where the various dwellers can meet and exchange. We designed a system that enables everyone to cross or roam the site at will. From now on, the old enclave is connected to its surroundings, grafting itself onto the existing urban fabric of the district and the city.”
Franklin Azzi
Located in the « Ile de Nantes » a site undergoing industrial transformation, the Alstom Warehouses requalification project marks a new step towards the objective of urban rehabilitation. It goes beyond – it is about city-making, city-making together on the old Alstom warehouses site so that a new dynamic arises at the crossroads of culture, technology and economy. In over 20 years, the available 26,000m2 (280,000 sq. ft.) of the existing warehouses has been restructured and converted into a multipurpose Creation district comprising: the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Higher School of Fine Arts (ENSBAN), the Nantes University, an office property complex for creative startups and a business accelerator, artists' workshops, a creative Third-Place project, and a catering facility. This insular city area bring together over 4,500 students from various backgrounds: art, architecture, design, cinema, digital media, dance and music.
Franklin Azzi Architecture’s mission was twofold: urban planning of the whole old Alstom warehouses area, and architectural design of the Higher School of Fine Arts. The Higher School of Fine Arts settles in Warehouses N°4 & 5 to accommodate five hundred students in a monumental transparent architecture. This ambitious rehabilitation and restructuring operation provide the school with brand new premises, better suited for the production of contemporary art work – materials, digital and print. The 4,000m2 (43,000 sq. ft.) facilities for research and experimentation is composed of workshops and free-spaces, an Art library, a public hub for creative publishing and a youth center, a contemporary art gallery, a store and a solidarity grocery.
Franklin Azzi
Located in the « Ile de Nantes » a site undergoing industrial transformation, the Alstom Warehouses requalification project marks a new step towards the objective of urban rehabilitation. It goes beyond – it is about city-making, city-making together on the old Alstom warehouses site so that a new dynamic arises at the crossroads of culture, technology and economy. In over 20 years, the available 26,000m2 (280,000 sq. ft.) of the existing warehouses has been restructured and converted into a multipurpose Creation district comprising: the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Higher School of Fine Arts (ENSBAN), the Nantes University, an office property complex for creative startups and a business accelerator, artists' workshops, a creative Third-Place project, and a catering facility. This insular city area bring together over 4,500 students from various backgrounds: art, architecture, design, cinema, digital media, dance and music.
Franklin Azzi Architecture’s mission was twofold: urban planning of the whole old Alstom warehouses area, and architectural design of the Higher School of Fine Arts. The Higher School of Fine Arts settles in Warehouses N°4 & 5 to accommodate five hundred students in a monumental transparent architecture. This ambitious rehabilitation and restructuring operation provide the school with brand new premises, better suited for the production of contemporary art work – materials, digital and print. The 4,000m2 (43,000 sq. ft.) facilities for research and experimentation is composed of workshops and free-spaces, an Art library, a public hub for creative publishing and a youth center, a contemporary art gallery, a store and a solidarity grocery.
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