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LES ARCHIVES DEPARTEMENTALES
by Kevin Matthews
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There is something inherently abstract about the
government archive. Storage of old records can too
easily be seen as a utility function free of aesthetic
aspiration. Compared to a classic library program, an
archive might be seen as exaggerating the stacks while
minimizing the interacting human element. In some
archives these tendencies lead to the place where the
technical function of storage obliterates the impulse
for architecture.

This helps understand how fresh and open the expression
is of the Archives departementales d'Ille-et-Vilaine, in
Rennes, France, by French architects Ibos & Vitart,
based in Paris. Resonating with the glass stacks of
Perrault's Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris
(1996), yet more immediately frank and rational, the
archives here are also sheathed in an upright glass
case, which is set behind a transparent, earth-touched
slab housing all the human functions of the center.

"These are two sealed worlds, one open and warm, the
other black. They are almost incompatible," in the words
of Myrto Vitart.

The building name, "Archives departementales," radiates
outward from the glass case in four-story-tall
red-letter supergraphics, providing both a proclamatory
distant effect and an abstract decorative local effect
within the building. The dual symbolism expresses at a
civic scale the responsibility of a public memory, and
at an individual scale the curatorially detached
engagement with specific small elements of the memory.
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The glass-and-steel R128 House is located on a steeply
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issues for the inhabitants have been met. It is a
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