Bobigny Complex School
维尔纳斯希腊
Architect
Client
Location
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Photographer
Mikou design studio
City of Bobigny
Bobigny, France
5, 000 m²
Florian Kleinefenn
A visually remarkable amenity in the city centre .
sunlight into the classrooms and the school playgrounds. This configuration allows
The city centre school in Bobigny is in a strategic urban location, bounded by three
the designers to propose a very identifiable building that is both unified and
large streets and by a pedestrian space on the north. The location lent itself to a
protective, which fits closely into its urban setting and follows the layout of the
three-storey mass on the north and east which gradually descends in tiers towards
three streets that enclose it, with variation of the massing that creates a play of
the south to allow maximum sunshine into the school playgrounds.
transparency and of visual counterpoints on the south and the south-west. Viewed
On the pedestrian street, the designers aim to present a two-storey flat-facaded
from above, the building is seen as a succession of planted terraces on the north
wall-building enlivened by a random series of openings alternating with solid
and east which open up and wrap themselves around the void of the nursery school
timber panels of different colours. This large mosaic-façade contains the entrance to
playground on the ground floor and the primary school playground on a first-floor
the nursery and primary schools and the public entrance to the nursery and primary
terrace, protected by a planted screen-fence. For this new facility, we chose a visibly
leisure centres, the games library and the common areas. Therefore the scheme’s
durable material, composed of timber panels of different colours arranged in a
overall form is a spiral with a three-storey front on the north, designed to base
random mosaic pattern.
the amenity’s institutional function on the pedestrian passage and the entrance
The external façades are composed of natural timber panels which alternate with
esplanade, with gradual lightening of the built mass from the second upper floor
timber-framed glazed panels on a horizontal grid.
downwards to the ground floor on the east and west, thereby allowing maximum 100
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