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Lurçat College
Lurçat College
The college Jean Lurçat in Saint Denis is located in
the articulation of two landscape types: a space of shattered non structured housing
blocks which give the district its identity and give a convivial scale on the
rues Diderot and d’Alembert; the sports park which opens itself towards the
landscape of Courneuve and enables the college to have an open view and a strong
liaison with the green areas of the city.
The college hence is in the
middle of the nature surrounded by vegetation and in proximity of the bordering
blocks.
The challenge of this building, in our opinion,
is to adjust itself into the site without creating a screen in the landscape of
the park, to articulate to the scale of the blocks by offering the district
transverse point of views and visual reference marks that mark the college as a
major asset in the urban composition.
These thoughts led us to design the college like an ensemble of units in
a park.
On the one hand these units have a north south orientation which enable
an optimal insolation on the site and on the other hand form a curve which
emphasises the force of the park. They are connected by open green patios which
mark the transparency towards the sports park and by a folded metallic roof
which protect the patios from overheating in summer and at the same time create
a microclimate in the hanging gardens.
This roof expresses the architectural writing of the notional metallic
pieces and the aesthetics of the units by introducing the variations and the
rhythms of the folded roofs to create a vibrant and coloured façade and the
different illumination of each unit.
The configuration of the project in units exemplify on the one hand the
identity of each school building by creating visual connections and multiple
view points towards the interior of the college and on the other hand to have a
delicate reading from rue Diderot and to emphasise the integration of the
college in the landscape.
The specificity of these units lies in the expressive variations and the
tonality of the coating of the façade which indicate a vibrating and animated
pallet on the rue Diderot.
The
coating consists of a panel of stainless steel which is more or less polished, undulated
and framed horizontal or vertical and coppered for the units of the
standardised rooms.
All the
units benefit from the angled windows and a triple orientation thanks to the
lateral openings on the hanging gardens.
the articulation of two landscape types: a space of shattered non structured housing
blocks which give the district its identity and give a convivial scale on the
rues Diderot and d’Alembert; the sports park which opens itself towards the
landscape of Courneuve and enables the college to have an open view and a strong
liaison with the green areas of the city.
The college hence is in the
middle of the nature surrounded by vegetation and in proximity of the bordering
blocks.
The challenge of this building, in our opinion,
is to adjust itself into the site without creating a screen in the landscape of
the park, to articulate to the scale of the blocks by offering the district
transverse point of views and visual reference marks that mark the college as a
major asset in the urban composition.
These thoughts led us to design the college like an ensemble of units in
a park.
On the one hand these units have a north south orientation which enable
an optimal insolation on the site and on the other hand form a curve which
emphasises the force of the park. They are connected by open green patios which
mark the transparency towards the sports park and by a folded metallic roof
which protect the patios from overheating in summer and at the same time create
a microclimate in the hanging gardens.
This roof expresses the architectural writing of the notional metallic
pieces and the aesthetics of the units by introducing the variations and the
rhythms of the folded roofs to create a vibrant and coloured façade and the
different illumination of each unit.
The configuration of the project in units exemplify on the one hand the
identity of each school building by creating visual connections and multiple
view points towards the interior of the college and on the other hand to have a
delicate reading from rue Diderot and to emphasise the integration of the
college in the landscape.
The specificity of these units lies in the expressive variations and the
tonality of the coating of the façade which indicate a vibrating and animated
pallet on the rue Diderot.
The
coating consists of a panel of stainless steel which is more or less polished, undulated
and framed horizontal or vertical and coppered for the units of the
standardised rooms.
All the
units benefit from the angled windows and a triple orientation thanks to the
lateral openings on the hanging gardens.
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