Comte Vollenweider Architectes

Simone Veil Middle School In Nice

Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle

SIMONE VEIL MIDDLE SCHOOL IN NICE

Comte & Vollenweider

SOFT FLOOR
2 SRI

SCIENTIFIC CLASSROOMS
Delagrave

LIFT
Perdigon

PLUMBING
Azurclim

ROADS AND NETWORKS
Europ TP

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Pierre-André Comte, Stéphane Vollenweider

DEMOLITION, TERRASSEMENT AND WORK STRUCTURE
SPADA<

ENGINEERING STUDY OFFICE
Oteis Sudequip

EXTERIOR CARPENTARY
Alquier

ELECTRICITY
Eiffage

FRAME, LOCKSMITH, CLADDING
TDA

CLIENT
Region of the Alpes Maritimes

PHOTOGRAPHS
Milène Servelle

AREA
7345.0 m2

PROJECT YEAR
2019

LOCATION
9 Avenue de l'Arbre Inférieur, 06000 Nice, France

CATEGORY
Refurbishment

Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle
Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle

Text description provided by architect.

At the bottom of the Cimiez's hill, the Pavillon's hill meanders.

Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle
Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle

This recessed plain is charged with a more social and industrial history than the wealthy, quiet and wooded residential district where the english aristocracy settled at the beginning of the 19 th century.

However it is in the plain, where the torrential character of the river marks the landscape where settled public facilities.

Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle
Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle

The "Arbre Inférieur" avenue that runs along the middle school Simone Veil underlines the limit between these two worlds with a topograpic walk.

On the retaining walls of the villas located on a high ground respond the surrounding walls of the plain's parcels.

Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
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Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle

Among these walls, there are those of the knowledge, acquaintance and education which include the high and middle school of Don Bosco, the "Notre Dame Auxiliatrice" church and the middle school of Simone Veil. The rehabilitation of the Simone Veil middle school ( formely Victor Duruy ) and the creation of his gymnasium is based on a sensitive approach of the territory.

The project keeps a maximum of the space for the yard.

Avoid multiplying buildings. Simplifies the movements inside the etablishment. Saves the technical works in infrastructure.

Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle
Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
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These precepts have been the main guidelines of the reflections to propose a coherent and comfortable establishement.

Winner of the competition in 2014, our proposal was to use the existing building and extend it to the north and and the south rather than creating a new standalone building.

Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
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Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle
Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
© Milène Servelle

The preserved building becomes the "historical" base of the project.

Its modenature and its prefabricated structure are recovered.

Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
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Simone Veil Middle School In Nice
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The glazed facade colored is a technical and climatic response that improves the thermal comfort and contributes energeticaly to the building.

This new glittering skin becomes at the same time the new identity of the middle school. The basic idea of this answer is that there is not the old facade or the new facade, but a unitary and coherent whole.

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