BAST Architects Awarded the Emerging Architecture Prize
10/04/2019.
[Montbrun-Bocage] France
metalocus, BLANCA VÁZQUEZ
metalocus, BLANCA VÁZQUEZ
Description of project by BAST
The existing school is a building built at the beginning of the twentieth century, enhanced by a plinth of about 60 cm. Its walls are made of factory walls, arranged symmetrically and braced by the two main facades. A courtyard closes the boundary of the longest part of the plot. The complex of buildings is situated in the centre of a trapezoidal plot bounded by two regional roads at the exit of the village. The façades of the courtyard facing the road are treated with a wall built of local stone. In order to make the existing school accessible through the courtyard, and in anticipation of the construction of a school canteen, a new courtyard is proposed in which a platform allows the agreement between the new pavilion and the existing building.
The new dining room building is located on this platform that borders the D74 road. The ground floor of the existing school becomes level 0.00 as a reference for the dining room and so that all the buildings are at the same height. The dining room is entirely made of wood: CLT type wood panels as the supporting element, and structural CLT panels for the roof. Externally insulated, the claddings are also larch wood panels. Without seeking a direct confrontation with the existing, the new project is the opportunity to return the same level of operation to the buildings, generate a series of connections between them that can improve teaching activities and use a rational and rapid construction system on site, allowing maximum natural lighting to be achieved inside.
BAST "Bureau architectures sans titre" (Untitled Architecture Office) was developed by Laurent Didier, Mathieu Le Ny, Louis Leger and Jean-Baptiste Friot in 2013. It works as a cooperative since 2016, where pairs of architects lead each of the firm’s projects, and individuality of each partner or employee of the agency is erased in favor of the expression of collective work.
They have won the AJAP Award 2018 and the Europe 40under40 Award 2018, as well as the Lauréat du Prix Architecture Occitanie 2017 Lauréat du Prix Archicontemporaine 2017 Mention Spéciale Prix Architecture Midi-Pyrénées 2015.