The project is located in Quimper's historic town center on a site between Rue du Chapeau Rouge, Rue de la Providence and Rue de Douarnenez. The heart of this plot had previously seen the demolition of buildings and their replacement by an open-air car park. The new programme for this area includes shop, spaces dedicated to culture and leisure activities, restaurant and offices. Set within a narrow and deep plot, the building are fragmented into small volumes to reinterpret the scale of the surrounding traditionnal constructions.
A covered pedestrian mall has been created to pick up movements between Rue de la Providence and Rue du Chapeau Rouge. Given rythm by the gable walls of buildings with their double sloped roof, the cantilevered volumes provide pedestrians with shelter from the weather. The street give acces to a passage leading towards Rue de Douarnenz witch widens to become a small square laid out with terraces, providing local residents a new and friendly public space.
Around this space, the building use a stud wall principle, reinterpreted using a metal structure with a wood clad infill. Only the entrance to the new space via Rue du Chapeau Rouge, a main shopping street, stands out through its use of glazed cladding assembled from anodised perforated aluminium panels and screen printed glass panels.
