ANMA Architectes Urbanistes

School of Engineers in Bretagne

School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia

School of Engineers in Bretagne

ANMA

ARCHITECTS
Anma

ECONOMIC CONSULTANCY
Anma

SOUND CONSULTANCY
Abc Decibel

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Nicolas Michelin, Michel Delplace, Cyril Trétout

CLIENT
Communauté D’agglomération Du Pays De Lorient

PROJECT DIRECTOR 
Etienne Chalet-hayard

PROJECT MANAGER
Ronan Le Hyaric

ASSOCIATED ARCHITECT
Rouillé Architectes Associés

GENERAL CONSULTANCY 
Betiba

PHOTOGRAPHS
Sergio Grazia

AREA
5743 m²

YEAR 
2013

LOCATION
Corancy, France

CATEGORY
High School

Text description provided by architect.

South Brittany's Higher School of Engineering is a microcosm the unity of which is organized around the compact, colorful central monolith from which the building's two wings radiate.

School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia
School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia

The monolith contains two essential areas: the amphitheater and the cafeteria.

Starting in the competition phase, the design for this central room was contributed to by artist David Saltiel. The school is part of an overall reflection by ANMA about interstitial spaces.

School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia
School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia

Fostering interaction between students, teachers, researchers and staff, they are essential to the process of the school's positive synergy. Whether they enable students and faculty to isolate themselves (like the faculty council's meeting room and its terrace overlooking the entire building) or come together (like the tiered terraces of the roof), they shape the sense of the same shared place.

With each place of higher education it has designed ANMA manifests its ambition to go beyond briefs, offer living space and shared venues that enable students to live and learn together.

School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia
School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia

The polyvalent spaces are organized in a rationale of flows. Study cells where students may meet to work together are added to the traditional classrooms. Learning is no longer isolated but networked and connected.

The concourses become public spaces connected to the city. The university thus opens onto its environment with a idea borrowed from the American campus model but applied on a French scale with constraints of density and mixed use with housing briefs.

School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia
School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia

Interactions between the student city and the city of everyday life incorporate these different projects into the same rationale of urban planning.

School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia
School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia


School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia
School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia
School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia


School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia
School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia
School of Engineers in Bretagne
© Sergio Grazia


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