Our ambition is to create an educational building rooted in its environment, comfortable, and pleasant, and that fully integrates the environmental preoccupations set in the brief. Accessible to all, it will provide a generous space to teach and a powerful tool for attentive and inventive pedagogy.
© Marie Caroline LUCAT
Contextually, our project is drawn up from the geometry of the site in order to offer a compact and low-rise building that integrates perfectly into its environment.
© Marie Caroline LUCAT
The basement of the building matches the boundaries of the site in order to form a protective envelope that sanctifies the internal spaces of the school. Blending the totality of the programs it bounds them easily and comfortably, allowing its center to contain the generous outdoor courts that ensure a kind and convenient visibility as well as appropriate sun exposure, freshness, and sun shade.
© Marie Caroline LUCAT
Therefore, our project resumes the concept of microclimatic envelope applied to the characteristics of the Mediterranean climate: an efficient concept that preserves freshness. The technical and constructive solutions that have been developed were intended to optimize the financial envelope and reduce maintenance costs.
© Marie Caroline LUCAT
© Marie Caroline LUCAT
Project Info
Architects: BPA ARCHITECTURE
Area: 5045 m²
Year: 2023
Category: Gymnasium, Educational Architecture, Schools
Associate Architect: TLA
Fluid And Thermal Engineering: BETSO
Kitchen Engineer: Ingecor
VRD: SEIRI
Environmental Engineer: Aubaine
Economy And Opc: BPTEC
City: Castelnau-le-Lez
Country: France
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