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Subsequent to delivering staff housing and reception building in 2013, this autumn the Hellin-Sebbag Architectes Associés office completed the second phase of the reconstruction of this building trades high school.
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The architect’s appointment comprised different scales – from urban space to furniture. Planning Complete replanning of the 4-hectare site, the four new buildings built around a 450m2 square courtyard organise the school grounds as an urban square: student foyer , media centre, student activities, canteen and boarding accommodation.
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To avoid the image of “hutches” within the bitumen courtyard, around beautiful existing trees the architects built a Mediterranean garden where pupils can relax freely. Architecture The architects paid particular attention to the transition between the inside and outside.
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Identifiable by its red frame, a ground floor terrace extends the canteen to the south by opening onto the courtyard. Alongside the boarding accommodation, a covered gallery extends into the garden as a large step where it is good to sit.
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Connected to both teaching buildings by two footbridges on the first floor, a small white pavilion extended by a vast terrace accommodates the media centre. Protected by a sunshade, the terrace overlooking the garden becomes a central place for exchanges and relaxation. Below this terrace, the well-shaded courtyard is punctuated by the pupils foyer that nestles into a glass ellipse.
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Design
The atmosphere within each space has been designed according to its function with particular care and originality. In the canteen, a sinuous curved partition/counter creates a separation between the self-service and the dining area.
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While small oval-shaped islands define areas of intimacy very appreciated by pupils. Similarly in the media centre, the magazine rack and screen support tables were specially designed by the architects.
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Low energy consumption
Thermal comfort is provided by reinforced external insulation, double flow ventilation and external solar protection. Financed by the Occitanie Region for 29 € million excluding taxes, the two construction phases in occupied premises lasted nearly eight years. Source by Hellin-Sebbag Architectes.
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- Location: Rue du Professeur Blayac, 34080 Montpellier, France
- Architect: Hellin-Sebbag Architectes
- Economist, Structure and Fluides: BUREAU D’ETUDES TPFI Ingénierie
- Surface totale: 12 324 m2 (shon)
- Surface totale réhabilitée: 8 869 m2 (shon)
- Cost: 29 000 000 € HT
- Date tranche 2: 2017
- Photographs: Benoit Wehrlé, Courtesy of Hellin-Sebbag Architectes
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