Kérantour business estate – PLEUDANIEL (Côtes-d’Armor)
RetourCompletion year 2010
Contracting Authority Lézardrieux Peninsula Federation of Municipalities
Mission Renewing and extending a craftworks business estate
Project Management Team Landscape architects and designers Laure Planchais (mandated agent), Light designers Coup d’Eclat, Ateliers Nord (graphics/signage), Consulting engineers SAFEGE
Surface area 15 hectares
Budget €700,000 exc. VAT
Ratio €5 exc. VAT per m²
The Kérantour craftworks business estate in Pleudaniel went through a strictly minimal initial preparation phase regarding two sectors separated by a very touristy county road. The project consisted in overhauling the previously-completed sector and to provide an extension in keeping with the whole. Quality work was of particular importance in this project, since the estate is located very close to a tourist information kiosk devoted to the Lézardrieux peninsula,
We produced a powerful landscaped image, serving as a signal commensurate with the entire region, by using a pine tree plantation as an early expression of the coastal ambience, showing towering, relatively transparent silhouettes that grow very fast. They are mainly planted in the non-constructible buffer strip that runs alongside the county highway, and occasionally planted in private plots. Most of the backfill from excavations performed when preparing the site will ultimately be reused for the pine trees and their undergrowth.
Internal thoroughfares were modified by dealing with the partitioning fences in a homogenous manner, using deciduous flowering trees (elderberry trees, wild cherry trees) in a design inspired by the surrounding banks that are covered in hedges and shrubs. Signage was deployed at the entrances to the site and to the plots.
Feedback (last visit in 2016)
- Overall, the landscaping is “aging well”, and almost all plots in the northern part have been taken. The long expected extension to the southern part was never completed.
- The wooded countryside plantations have settled well except for the modification to the south as a result of lack of space.
- A few of the pine trees are lying down. We have observed that they were cut at their base. Very strange…
- Some support stakes have not yet been removed!
- A few slats bearing the plot number and company name have been affixed to the poles at the entrance, despite the fact that the initial signage worked fine with the plot numbers!