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Crèche and day nursery
The success
of the Saint-Blaise crèche and day nursery project depends on its capacity to
provide an architectural solution to a number of specific and extremely constraining
problems posed by its uses and the site:
- the
narrowness of the plot and density of the surrounding urban fabric.
- large
altimetric differences.
- the
monumental scale of the surrounding buildings.
- the
constraint of an emergency exit at 2.14m above street level and its free
access.
- two
separate entities having to cohabit the same site.
- the
challenge of taking part in the district’s urban requalification and fulfilling
the role of a community facility.
Our studies
quickly showed that the development of the project as the superimposition of
two projects with separate entrances, accessed by transitional ramps, would
increase the equivalent exterior spaces to more than a third of the project’s
total surface area (approx. 550
m²).
Locating the
day nursery at street level and the crèche at garden level and R+1, and thus
adapting to the altimetric differences, provides a clear solution to the
problem of integrating these two separate entities into the same site. The plot
is thus liberated and has incomparable potential.
We chose a
compact morphology organised in strata echoing the terrain, each strata having
its own qualities and orientation. This compactness produces a formal
legibility and architecture devoid of monumental effects, in contrast with its
immediate surroundings and on the scale of the children themselves.
Both the day
nursery and the crèche can thus open onto a succession of pleasant, sunny
exterior spaces (courtyard, hanging garden, balcony, roof terrace) whose
variety is a crucial part of the project’s quality and generosity.
We imagined
the project as the heart of an island encapsulating the constraint of reaching
an emergency exit located at +2.14m as well as the access to the crèche. The
project’s articulation around this space enables the courtyard, terraces and
almost 70% of the total surface of the façade to be southwest facing and
therefore benefit from maximum possible sunshine.
The empty
space created opens up the plot completely, providing transparencies from the street
and creating a generous architecture contributing to the requalification of the
district.
of the Saint-Blaise crèche and day nursery project depends on its capacity to
provide an architectural solution to a number of specific and extremely constraining
problems posed by its uses and the site:
- the
narrowness of the plot and density of the surrounding urban fabric.
- large
altimetric differences.
- the
monumental scale of the surrounding buildings.
- the
constraint of an emergency exit at 2.14m above street level and its free
access.
- two
separate entities having to cohabit the same site.
- the
challenge of taking part in the district’s urban requalification and fulfilling
the role of a community facility.
Our studies
quickly showed that the development of the project as the superimposition of
two projects with separate entrances, accessed by transitional ramps, would
increase the equivalent exterior spaces to more than a third of the project’s
total surface area (approx. 550
m²).
Locating the
day nursery at street level and the crèche at garden level and R+1, and thus
adapting to the altimetric differences, provides a clear solution to the
problem of integrating these two separate entities into the same site. The plot
is thus liberated and has incomparable potential.
We chose a
compact morphology organised in strata echoing the terrain, each strata having
its own qualities and orientation. This compactness produces a formal
legibility and architecture devoid of monumental effects, in contrast with its
immediate surroundings and on the scale of the children themselves.
Both the day
nursery and the crèche can thus open onto a succession of pleasant, sunny
exterior spaces (courtyard, hanging garden, balcony, roof terrace) whose
variety is a crucial part of the project’s quality and generosity.
We imagined
the project as the heart of an island encapsulating the constraint of reaching
an emergency exit located at +2.14m as well as the access to the crèche. The
project’s articulation around this space enables the courtyard, terraces and
almost 70% of the total surface of the façade to be southwest facing and
therefore benefit from maximum possible sunshine.
The empty
space created opens up the plot completely, providing transparencies from the street
and creating a generous architecture contributing to the requalification of the
district.
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