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a_LTA architectes

A_LTA

Biography

Above all our association is the meeting and the friendship of 2 people : maxime le trionnaire and gwénaël le chapelain (born in 1979). This encounter occurred in 1997 in the School of Architecture of Nantes. During our studies, we create a deep bond and polish our architect's visions. Graduated in 2004, we work in many architecture agencies with good reputation like Architecture Studio, Block, Duncan Lewis, Stéphane Maupin, X'tu, ...

In parallel, we carry through several design competitions and a cycle of installations about sport and architecture.

Bolstered up by this experience, we decide in 2006 to set up our own business and to constitute "mxg architectes".

Our first orders came from the west of France.

In 2010 we integrate existing group named a_LTA architectes as principal associates.

a_LTA architectes (le trionnaire x2 - tassot - le chapelain) is a partnership composed by four associate architects based in Rennes.

a_LTA's projects are particular, organized and realized with a pragmatic aim in view.

a_LTA's operations are reproductions of signs taken from some specific fields, the purpose of which is a search of feelings.

we are sensitive to the contexts in which we operate. That's why we are particularly interested in local, history and psychological fields
of projects.

As these contexts are rarely homogeneous, our writing tends to be hybrid. Those projects are realized or on-going projects on various scales. They prove our interest for elements that are transferred, imitated and put together, and that keep a definite link as sign/object to their referent.

a_LTA gladly chose the local instead of the global and the specific instead of the generic.

a_LTA aims to execute a simple and understandable architecture, an architecture close to its surroundings.

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The operation consists of three buildings housing placed on a foundation of business premises. The whole is articulated by a landscaped garden with vegetal and mineral nuances We believe that "beautiful" housing accommodations are bright, well-oriented and offer large views. That's what we developed for the three buildings with views to the city center of Nantes or to the river. We used the same codes and registers, but declined for each operation. The aim is to distinguish each entity while having an overall unity. Thus the staging of homes through their extension outside (loggias, terraces), scripted buildings from public spaces. The inherent quality of the housing draws the facades. The architecture emphasizes the use and the opportunity offered by the housing. We did not want an architecture demonstrative, but rather an architecture that makes you want to be inhabited, to be invested. We are particularly interested in the orientation of housing. Thus the vast majority of the flats has a Southeast or Southwest exposure. And most units have a double crossing angle or orientation. The slenderness of the corners buildings forms two "towers" that mark the ends of the plot and dialogue with Picasso's Walk, as the central building, below, maintains a relationship with the garden.

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