Collège Maxime Javelly / Céline Teddé & Jérôme Apack architectes

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Located in the Alpes de Hautes Provence, the peaceful town of Riez lives above its archaeological Roman heritage, buried along a former dried-up river. A dilapidated secondary school stands above these ruins. It was built in the 1960’s, at a time when such a heritage was rejected, to the point where it vanished in the depths of the school’s crawl spaces. The restructuring of the school’s functioning and its retrofitting raise the question of the future of these ruins and of their possible enhancement. Due to lack of funding, the project sponsor decided to facilitate access to archaeologists while denying it to the public and to students.

Groupe Scolaire De La Pomme De Pin / Céline Teddé & Jérôme Apack architectes + DSA Damien Surocca Architectes

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:00:00 +0000

A monolithic polyhedron made up of white bricks and raw concrete, the Pomme de Pin school complex, which was delivered in 2015 in La Fare-les-Oliviers (Bouches-du-Rhône), does not immediately conjure up its function. Set up east of the town at the boundary with the Arc agricultural plain in a sprawling residential suburb, it acts as an urban marker at the entrance to the hamlet. The architects of the AT agency (Marseille) and of the DSA agency (Lille) designed a compact building in which the nursery school and the elementary school are superposed, thus minimizing the constructible area of the project. The main programme, which comprises two schools and a recreational centre, is supplemented by a multipurpose hall for the activities of the three establishments and by a car park built on “restanques” (in Provençal, a “restanco” is a drystone wall).

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Collège Maxime Javelly / Céline Teddé & Jérôme Apack architectes

Groupe Scolaire De La Pomme De Pin / Céline Teddé & Jérôme Apack architectes + DSA Damien Surocca Architectes