Description of the project by NBJ Architects
The objective was to think a new spatial organization of the site in order to provide at students, teachers and the administration staff, a workspace and a real place of life appropriable by all.
The stake is to reconquest the human scale in building and outdoor spaces by a better distribution of the buildings. The project draws one’s inspiration from campus model, which presents the advantage to be flexible and to allow a better identification of education’s poles. This intervention process also allows to students to find easily a way and fit into a social life while being supervised (easy reading of circulations, gratitude of spaces).
Thereby a centrality, a heart of establishment close to all functions has been possible. The court is the major element of the project, a meeting’s place but also a transition place. Its localization offers directs connections with the cafeteria, the restaurant place, administration, workshop, general teaching and school life rooms. Its allows to gather the students during their free time. That is why it is necessary to propose qualities of specific spaces, easily appropriable, playful and to bring a feature to the exteriors arrangements. The landscape treatment of the court is voluntary urban type like a central place, mainly mineral, allowing a differentiation with the gardens.
Spaces are treated and easily recognizable to assert an idea of sequences and gratitude education’s pole. Densify the gardens between the buildings can provide a plant screen that enhances the visual and thermal comfort facades comfort. Visual borderlines are more and more wide thanks to the preserving of the green space in the Northwest of the High School. The project proposes to create an alternation between dense wooded areas, buildings, more minerals places, and specific soil treatment which provide landscape diversity. The objective is to find a building / plant balance.
Text.- NBJ Architects. vía v2com.
CREDITS.-
Project.- Lycée Albert Einstein.
Location.- Bagnols sur Cèze, France.
Architects.- Elodie Nourrigat & Jacques Brion (NB Architectes), François Privat (Partner architect).
Total area.- 2300m² + landscaping.
Client.- Région Languedoc Roussillon. Budget.- 4.200.000 €.
Construction date.- November 2012.
Photography.- Paul Kozlowski.
