Nursery and primary school with gym

Paris, France

Nursery and primary school with gym
Boulogne – Billancourt, France
2010

program: A gym, a kindergarten (7 classes), an elementary school (11 classes) both with a restaurant service
total area: 6 300 m2
client: SAEM Val de seine Amènagement
project: Alfonso Femia * with
landscapist: BASE
structural engineering & economist: IOSIS
environmental sustainability: RFR Eléments
restaurant engineering: PROCESS CUISINES
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia & Scriptogram
“An architecture stops and becomes territory.
A building turns him into stone, brutal and primitive substance. This unusual object manifests its wealth from the inside street that closes again. A living subject welcomes the street of the different fruitoris: animals, bugs. Children.” AF
An architecture stops and becomes territory.
A building turns into stone, brutal and primitive substance. This unusual object manifests its wealth from the inside street that closes again. A living subject welcomes the street of the different fruitoris: animals, bugs. Children.
The whole is characterized by thick and enigmatic volumes. Approaching us, the perception of an internal wealth stimulates the look and arouses curiosity. The light, the faults, the asperities, the hollow, the vegetation the cracks of the façade attract the eye.
It is when the passers-by draw near discovering the inside of the “casket” that his/her inhabitants discover.
The nature dominates and lives this mass: the air passes from the faults, water strains from the long façades the vegetation..
This building introverted by the skin hard and austere refuses the contemporary narcissism and the self-reference. The founding act of the project is to find an evident relationship between the nature and the artifice, between the architecture and the context.
The invention is the space. The true architectural richness for us is the delicate equilibrium between the volumes and the different masses: an architecture without prejudices, but responsible, that speaks the language of the beauty more than of the doubts, and of the certainties, of the identity and of the pleasure more than the architectural language.
The elementary school is conceived in a compact way, with a simple and effective operation. The environments beneifts of a double exposure, offering a maximum confort to the users. The court is located at the same floor level of (R+1) of the classrooms, offer an overview on the landscape and it invites to the discovery.