Lycee Jean Moulin / OFF Architecture

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OFF Architecture , along with Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture and Jean de Giacinto, has completed the design for the reconstruction of in , France.   The new college is perfectly integrated into the existing site conditions, creating a dynamic educational facility.  The new building seeks to become a part of the terrain as the form follows the protruding and receding nature of the undulating hills.  The form creates a ripple-like effect across the site and provides a sense of movement to the surrounding region.  When the college  is completed in 2012, users will find themselves benefiting from the natural qualities of their immediate environment and enjoying a learning environment unlike any other.

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As seen on designboom.

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CMO ARCH says:

Wish my high school looked like that…

 
# September 16, 2009 at 21:11
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Ala says:

Wish the roofs were done as outdoor walkways,like a zig-zag ramp.

Maybe the architects didn’t want to make them that way since we have seen quite often ramp-like building along a hill on the web. Not wanting to look like a copycat may be the reason.

But still, the roofs are so tantalizing. I think they could be done somehow walkable even if they are not a zigzag ramp.

 
# September 16, 2009 at 21:15
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    T.Nowicki says:

    maybe becouse the walkable green roof requires more money and care than just “green roof”

     
    # September 17, 2009 at 09:47
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Emerson Gámez B. says:

BEATYFULL

 
# September 16, 2009 at 21:49
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Wow, very cool. Incredible how the whole thing just seems to be there, like a bush or a lichen on a rock, I concord with CMO ARCH, I wish my high school was like that (it wasn’t).
Regardless of site conditions, more projects like this would be a very good idea. It’s neat. Judging from the interior hall perspective, the walk up to a classroom seems like a journey in itself.

 
# September 17, 2009 at 02:03
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Bamboo skys says:

soft step building.- Anti object look nice.

 
# September 17, 2009 at 04:44
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yuyun90 says:

牛b的设计。

 
# September 17, 2009 at 05:23
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Fran says:

All those stairs may well fight against youth overweight…!
Well done!
French girls will stil have good lookink bottom

Chapeau !!!

 
# September 17, 2009 at 06:13
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Vitsee says:

its a shame you cannot use the roofs

 
# September 17, 2009 at 08:47
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that's what she says:

a lot of green roofs?…
that’s not “perfectly integrated into the existing site conditions”,
but still a nice project

 
# September 17, 2009 at 09:59
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ygogolak says:

Very nice project. Similar in nature to Eisenman’s City of Culture:
http://www.eisenmanarchitects.com/

 
# September 17, 2009 at 11:06
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Shah says:

Its really cool .its better have to figght pollution

 
# September 19, 2009 at 06:28
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Al says:

wonderful moon house covering land

 
# September 21, 2009 at 13:26
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zoute says:

The associate name is “Jean de Giacinto” (NOT Jeans Giacinto)

 
# September 23, 2009 at 16:56

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