E26 - Jean-Louis Le Didier - BAST- France

The existing school is a building built in the early twentieth century, enhanced by a base of about 60cm courtyard side. Its walls are coated masonry, with a symmetrical composition affirmed on the 2 main facades. A yard closes the yard on the longest parcel boundary. All buildings are centrally arranged on a trapezoidal plot sloping between the two county roads at the exit of the village. The facades of the courtyard along the roads are treated by a country stone wall. In order to make the existing school accessible from the courtyard, and in anticipation of the construction of the school refectory, a masonry forecourt restores a reading and noble uses to the courtyard facade and connects to the topography by a step that participates in it. also to this reading and these uses. The new refectory building lands on this new forecourt, and is limited on the D74 road. The wall chest is kept under ground on the road of the new building. The ground floor level of the existing school becomes the reference 0.00 level for the forecourt and the refectory so that all the buildings are at the same height. The refectory is entirely made of wood: CLT wood panels, structural CLT roof panels. Isolated from the outside, the exterior cladding is also larch wood panels. Without seeking any violent confrontation with the existing, the new project gives the opportunity to restore the same level of operation to buildings, generates a step that can benefit new educational activities and uses a rational and very rapid construction system on site allowing to release a maximum of glazed volumes to preserve the through views and to benefit from a maximum of natural light in interior.