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ESIEE-IT school of engineering and digital expertise's

Pontoise, France

Firm

Vallet de Martinis architectes

Type

Educational › University

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET

$10M - 50M

Given the diversity of the surfaces of the i-management school program, it seemed interesting and relevant to us to experiment with a tiered organization. The idea is to offer users a plurality of shared spaces, particularly on the interior terraces. The large step that allows access to the amphitheaters, the interior terraces, the exterior terraces and the foyer are all places that allow staff and students to appropriate their building.

This project allows us to discover the principle of precisely guiding the movement of people in certain places. Conversely, in large parts of the plan, to let them move freely within the project. In this way, the students' wandering through the architectural structure is at the heart of the experience of the space. Through this project, we hope to change the habits of students in their daily lives. It is a question of encouraging encounters in order to develop a certain dynamic of work, serenity and well-being. But also the hope that people, a priori, foreign to the university world can naturally invite themselves in this course.

On the façade, the repetition of the metal louvers underlines the compactness of the project. The variation of their orientation allows however to create a vibrant modenature which gives the project a different image according to the point of view that one carries on it. The ventelles also allow us to control the solar gain. This allows us to benefit from large full-height glass windows throughout the project. The chosen orientation of the windows maintains a maximum of visibility from the inside to the outside.