Yoonseux Architects

Primary School J.Jaurès II

Primary School J.Jaurès II

YOONSEUX Architectes

Primary School J.Jaurès II
© Fabrice Dunou

ARCHITECTS
Yoonseux Architectes

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fabrice Dunou

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Livry-gargan, France

AREA
530.0 m²

CATEGORY
Schools

Primary School J.Jaurès II
© Fabrice Dunou

Text description provided by architect.

The Livry Gargan town, which is located in the north of Paris, decided to expand the Jaurès primary school to respond to the increasing number of pupils. The site is situated between the two main buildings of the school and at the edge of the plot.

The project's extension reveals a simple line along which a garden comes along the classrooms and the covered playground. This line clearly appears as a contemporary response compared to the existing building.

Primary School J.Jaurès II
© Fabrice Dunou
Primary School J.Jaurès II
© Fabrice Dunou

The pupils come into the classrooms through a corridor with opal glass and once into these classrooms they discover the beautiful view of the garden.

The staging joists blackout curtain, the choice of “sango kaku” trees display in the center of triptych windows make the school a learning space opened to the external landscape.

Larch wood is omnipresent both outside and inside the classrooms. The warm atmosphere, the light, the natural and artificial lighting, the touch brought by this wood bring to the children a comfort and well being feeling.

Primary School J.Jaurès II
© Fabrice Dunou
Primary School J.Jaurès II
© Fabrice Dunou

At the border of the property the concrete wall brings the tree "into" the classrooms and allows the mind to wander towards the sky...

The interior and exterior of the building is developped as a line along the garden. In part the covered playground, the beams are turned upside on the roof and transform its underside into a smooth surface of bare wood with a minimum bearing point. At the same time this underside of wood makes deep landscaping space.

Primary School J.Jaurès II
© Fabrice Dunou
Primary School J.Jaurès II
© Fabrice Dunou

In this project, the wood is valued, not only for the vertical structure with the laminated panels, finishes of the same type inside and outside but also for the horizontal structure forming the floor of the classrooms and playground Some figures:

• 24 m3 of timber
• 110m ² wall
• 490m ² floor
• 1.4 tonne of fittings
• 10,000 screws

ADVANTAGES

A low environmental impact mainly due to wood coupled with low energy consumption - An architectural quality benefiting from natural inputs, - Nuisances and lead times reduced through prefabrication of high reliability


Primary School J.Jaurès II
Floor Plan


Primary School J.Jaurès II
Detail

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