The IFSanté is a 3200 square-meter Health Formation
Institute building in Lomme, France, for the Catholic University. The site is
near the Saint-Philibert Hospital and the subway, in a new neighborhood named
“Humanicité” and composed of several open blocks crossed by a large pedestrian
avenue.The institute hosts 600 students and teaches a variety of
medicine and health subjects.
The project exhibits a tight simplicity that reflects the
program informing about the internal configurations. The geometry is set on the
northwest corner of the block, releasing an as
generous as possible court. The
project expresses various strata
that are in
dialogue with a heart open block.
The controlled transparency of the ground floor gathers the
court, the lobby and the
cafeteria in a friendly place.
A singular figure is expressed from
different perspectives. The amphitheater,
the library and rooms
for practical work, specific
program elements, are staged to
distinguish the different polarities of the project. The cantilever
of the amphitheater clearly
designates a protected entry.
The planted roofs offer quiet spaces
and draw the skyline
in different levels. The facades materials, alternating glass and anodized
aluminum, offer a subtle
interplay of different transparencies
bringing lot of natural light.