Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande, Rennes Building, French Architecture, Images
Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande in Rennes
Place of Worship Building Development, France – design by Alvaro Siza Vieira, Architectes
13 Feb 2018
Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande
Architects: Alvaro Siza Vieira
Location: Rennes, France
Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande

Photos: Joao Morgado
Brittany region in the 21st-century. The project has beencontracted to the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira. Siza?s use of light and white concrete provide a unique ceremonial space that gently folds into the neighbourhood south of Rennes, a residential area with five-story housing blocks. Siza’s main concern when designing the project was being able to integrate the church into the urban fabric. One of the hallmarks of the building is the circular shape on the second floor, which will hold up to 120 people ?freeing up the first floor for social and administrative areas.
This church will be inserted as a free-standing volume that adapts to the existing plan and the dimensions of the nearby buildings and spaces, extant or planned, in particular the size of the apartment block to the north. The programme is distributed across two levels be superimposing a cylinder with a 14.75 m outer diameter on a 16xi6 m square plan with a total height of 12 m.

The Parish Centre and the church are on the first and second floors respectively, with a smaller 97.2 sqm basement for the technic...