Christophe Gulizzi  Architecte

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon

LYCÉE ALPHONSE DAUDET IN TARASCON

Christophe Gulizzi

ARCHITECTS
Christophe Gulizzi

PHOTOGRAPHS
Philippe Ruault, Vincent Fillon

AREA
3000.0 m2

 YEAR
2009

LOCATION
Tarascon, France

CATEGORY
Schools

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault

Text description provided by architect.

The double extension of the Alphonse Daudet Lycée in Tarascon raises the question of responsibility when building on a remarkable site.

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault

Lycée built in 1933 by Gaston Castel (Grand Prix de Rome), listed as a historical monument.

Kilmaine barracks, site listed as a historical monument, built in 1718, by the architect Desfour.

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault

The building operation considers the memory of the site and territorial identity as narrative elements, as an extension of its morphology.

In a site steeped in history, within a team whose role is to pass on our secular and republican values, there is no room for arrogance and pompous architectural features.

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon

Spatial order is achieved by incorporating programmatic and contextual constraints, within a unique process of shape generation.

The facades comply with the laws of barrack composition: podium, buttress, minerality, succession of sober openings, following a repetitive cutting module, in a subtle allegory of the loophole.

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault

Pitted, coloured concrete, deployed over the entire construction, betrays the vanity of the artifices of architectural design and pays homage to traditional military constructions, massive, robust, sober and efficient.

No plastic feats or material preciosity. The buildings, armed with abstraction, turn towards the only permanent elements of the site.

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon

Only tactics, specific devices, no feigned mannerisms. Two considerations have given rise to the building’s design.

Qne involves the status of image and its symbolic efficiency in space mastering and in crystallising intentions;

The other concerns the secular tectonic tradition and semantic use of construction as a vector of cohesion and readability of the constructed object.

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault

All is played out in the ambivalent perception of the buildings.Spelled out in a singular, monolithic and mineral shape.

Their billhook fashioned geometry fulfils their silent forms, proclaiming them as a system, in perfect symbiosis with the site.

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault

How to make a building credible in an era flooded with icons, counterfeits, as in the Ventimille market?

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault

Not in the art of cloning erected as a communications strategy.Not by using and abusing architectural processes where conventional architectural writing is enough to belong,

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon

The implication and recognition of an egocentric cultural system void of meaning. The architectural project is like a beautiful woman, invention keeps the flame alive. It is commonplace to say that the building is LEB.

Nowadays, there are OCDs (obsessive compulsive disorders) in our profession, if you throw LEB at an engineering office, they will generally answer “external insulation, cladding and wood boiler”

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon

Can you imagine the damage done by the biblical responsibilities now weighing upon the shoulders of the EOs? ?! Save our children!Never fear, concrete still has a wonderful future ahead.

Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon


Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Philippe Ruault
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon
Lycée Alphonse Daudet In Tarascon
© Vincent Fillon


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