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Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center

Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner

JOLIOT-CURIE SCHOOL CATERING SERVICE AND SCHOOL LIFE CENTER

Ateliers O-S Architectes

FLUID ENGINEERING
Yac

KITCHEN
Froid 77

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Vincent Baur, Guillaume Colboc, Gaël Le Nouëne

PLUMBING, VENTILATION AND HEATING
Utb

DESIGN TEAM
Jonathan Nuttin

SITE TEAM
Agathe Mesure-Madelain

KITCHEN DESIGNER
Novorest

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
I+A

ELECTRICITY
Salmon

PHOTOGRAPHS
Cyrille Weiner

AREA
3099 m²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Dammarie-les-lys, France

CATEGORY
High School, Dining Hall

Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner
Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner

Text description provided by the architects.

The project is located in the heart of the Frédéric Joliot-Curie high school, in the town of Dammarie-les-Lys (Seine et Marne).

Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner
Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner

Built in 1965, it occupies a site of almost 5 hectares and consists of 6 buildings with a total built area of approximately 10,000 m². It is composed of 6 independent buildings.

The operation aims to restructure the whole of Building C. It is located in the heart of the school in a very landscaped setting, between the staff car park (to the north), the forest (to the south), and two buildings dedicated to teaching (to the east and west).

Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner
Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner

Covered galleries are articulated on the external pathways between the current refectory and the other surrounding buildings.

On the south façade, the canopy that shelters the students while they wait to enter the half-board, and the design of the roofs are oriented towards the forest. The ground levels allow the technical rooms on the garden level to be lit by daylight.

Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner
Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner

The food from the refectory is unloaded onto a platform located on the north façade, on the edge of the staff car park.

The building consists of a ground floor and a garden level. The ground floor is the level of the half-board. It contains the preparation, catering, and dishwashing areas, the cold rooms, the storerooms as well as the student foyer, and the delivery area.

Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner
Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner

The garden level is composed of two zones. The first zone is accessible to the public directly from the outside and includes the rooms of the school life center (student club, gym, music room).

The second zone is accessible to staff and includes the archives, the furniture store, the staff changing rooms, the head teacher's office, and the staff workshops.

The project seeks to reinforce the reading of a clearly privileged orientation by extending the high roof to the north and south. This roof provides a view of the forest from the large dining room.

Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner
Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner
Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner

In addition to this north-south orientation, the lateral "wings" open up to the west and east, with the creation of a main entrance from the west to the lower level of the garden level.

Thus, the project is presented as a very simple volume, composed of two registers: a low metal register composed of corrugated panels in a metallic grey color, which detaches the project from the ground.

It functions as a base and is organized according to the program proposing a set of openings that reveal the interior volumetry.

Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner
Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner
Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner

A clear and smooth upper register in perforated aluminum panels caps the lower volume like a hat. It envelops and brings light to the dining areas.

This register provides an overhang that marks the entrance and serves as a canopy to shelter the student queues from the weather. All the technical elements of the roof are hidden and integrated into this volume.

Joliot-Curie School Catering Service And School Life Center
© Cyrille Weiner


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