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JEAN PROUVÉ Temporary School of Villejuif
JEAN PROUVÉ Temporary School of Villejuif
Paris, France
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JEAN PROUVÉ Temporary School of Villejuif
Paris, France
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
1957
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
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By 1956, Jean Prouvé was recognized among France’s top designers of temporary emergency buildings, and as a result was commissioned to design a school complex in Villejuif, in the inner Paris suburbs. The specifications called for a lightweight building that could be put together quickly and would lend itself to being dismantled and re-erected elsewhere. The construction principle that Prouvé developed for the school drew from the principle he had applied to the Cachat pump room at Evian, which is now a classified historical monument. Based on prefabricated elements, the asymmetrical structure used sheet steel props to support a curved, cantilevered, laminated wood roof. The fully glazed facade was punctuated by sheet steel sections serving both as stiffeners and ventilation elements.
Designed to be temporary, the school was later demounted and its components used in other buildings. These elements are now acknowledged features of twentieth-century architecture: one of the props is now a part of the Centre Georges Pompidou’s permanent collection.
Designed to be temporary, the school was later demounted and its components used in other buildings. These elements are now acknowledged features of twentieth-century architecture: one of the props is now a part of the Centre Georges Pompidou’s permanent collection.
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