Urban Challenges

The project is set within an open block formation, shaped as an equilateral triangle, engaging in dialogue with the landscaped core of the ZAC intended to host an urban farm.
Morbiha­n Square, open to the city, unfolds as a lived and educational space, directly linked to this agricultural vocation.
The urban arrangement is organized through sequenced planes, from Surville Street to the farm, in a gradual stepping that ensures continuity of the skyline.
The overall composition resembles an urban oasis, where verticality, fissures, and sloping roofs reinterpret, in a contemporary language, the forms of an organic and vernacular city.

A Countryside Urbanity

Inspired by a village spirit, the composition articulates small built units through plays of setbacks and openings toward the city, the landscape, and the ocean.
The project weaves a strong connection with the neighborhood through “rotules” (pivot points) that open views and stage the landscaped heart of the block, inviting users to appropriate the spaces.
The facades, non-linear, play with angles and folds, introducing oblique views and a wide variety of living situations.
The “garden-street,” a ground-level space structuring the block, organizes gentle pathways and distributes dispersed uses in the landscape: a central plaza, shelters, planting beds, collective furniture…
This micro-centrality, placed like a belvedere, constitutes a meeting place and a cool spot conducive to daily conviviality.

Architectural Devices

The architecture applies the urban principles in a porous built landscape, inspired by vernacular construction yet decidedly contemporary.
The facades alternate solids and voids, shadow plays and vertical thrusts, tracing a fluid skyline.
The parking base, adjusted to natural slopes, organizes public/private transitions, while the “garden-street” serves the housing units.
The fragmented and reduced galleries avoid any corridor effect and offer the dwellings outdoor extensions that can be appropriated.
The materiality — wood, lime, raw earth, woven reed fences — asserts a rustic, economical, and warm language, reinforced by the central role of natural light in the project.
The cross-ventilated apartments, equipped with loggias or winter gardens, benefit from natural ventilation, generous views, and transition spaces (cellars, filters) between public and private realms.

Constructive Intelligence

The project relies on a mixed wood-concrete structure, combined with bio-sourced insulation (hemp, wood fiber) and natural materials: wood, lime-hemp, raw earth.
The constructive composition is rational: stacked volumes, replicable grid, absence of cantilevers. In a logic of sobriety, the project envisages partial reuse of existing foundations, subject to a favorable structural diagnosis.
Overall, the design aims for an architecture that is economical, adaptable, and anchored in a demanding environmental approach.