Maire School and City hall
ARCHITECTS
Ideaa Architectures
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Laurent Dugo, Benoît Herrmann, Sandro De Pin
TECHNICAL ENGINEERING
Sbe
PHOTOGRAPHS
Alain-marc Oberlé
AREA
690 M²
YEAR
2013
LOCATION
Rammersmatt, France
CATEGORY
Schools
Text description provided by architect.
The architectural competition left the choice to the architects: demolish the existing buildings to reconstruct new one’s or rehabilitate them.
Our approach joins the border of these 2 solutions. We preserved the old buildings to install the new program.
To reach the energy goals (the building produces more energy than it consumes it) a new “box” was juxtaposed in the existing volume.
The former barn became an in/out space which allows to create a reception hall and to distribute the new premises.
The spatial wealth of the project ensues from the new/old relationship glorified by the quality of the existing volume.
The massive use of wood for the structure and the cladding of the new "box" strengthens this idea of dialogue between the new buidings and the old farm materials.