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LEARNING PALACE
Design of a public facility, Ivry-sur-Seine.
Through its architecture, the People’s Palace can change people’s consciousness and define itself as a social platform. This is why it has been renamed the Learning Palace. There are three ways to learn:
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By concentrating on a book or by meditating. To do this, it is necessary to be in a quiet space, to withdraw into oneself.
By sharing, exchange is fundamental to access knowledge. It requires a porous space and a link with the city of Ivry-sur-Seine.
Finally, by experimenting and producing, in an airy, bright and free space.
These three modes of learning will take place on three formally and programmatically independent levels. The basement is occupied by the library and the auditorium. The ground floor is made up of spaces open to sharing; the covered market, the solidarity bookshop, a modular space for exhibitions, a restaurant. Then the sports field, rehearsal rooms and workshops will occupy the first floor. Each atmosphere provides its own interdependent structure.
In order to increase the amount of light on each floor, the creation of vertical openings and patios is necessary. The vertical circulations are placed in this void to cross each level. It is therefore the view, the light, the air and the circulation that link these three interdependent environments.
