Fuente: Jean Marc IBOS Myrto VITART Fotografía: Stéphane Chalmeau Archives are the memory of times past, as well as the records. The archives building in Rennes embodies a system where function – which takes on aesthetic qualities here – becomes a symbol. It comprises two distinct parts: one is dedicated to document flow, a vertical shape in the landscape, while the other is for public use only, along a horizontal ax

Fuente: Jean-Marc IBOS Myrto VITART Fotografía: Jean-Marc IBOS Myrto VITART On the Billancourt bank, where the river curves, opposite Seguin Island, the landscape generates urban partition. Two features assert their presence. First the river, which is linear, infinite and divides the site horizontally. And then the island itself, which, following the curve of the river, forms a crucible opposite the vacant trapezium,

Fuente: Architonic Fotografía: Philippe Ruault, Georges Fessy The river landscape demands to be understood horizontally. Everything here bends to the logic of the river: the linearity of the quays, the stretch of the jetty, the alignment of the trees. Down to the buildings themselves, which line up from one end of the jetty to the other, perfectly regular in their continuity on a parallel to the quays, vertically pun