Primary school | DE-SO Architectes

The project is organised specificly for that school complex on this site.

The school complex is layed out with a central body providing hospitality and catering functions for the wings:

- the Nursery school on the north side

- the Elementary school on the south side

The two entry halls, visually separated by the caretaker’s lodge can be pooled. They open on two major playgrounds specific to each school.

The new school complex «Danielle Mitterrand» is drawn in a large urban project for the requalification of the «Quartier des Poëtes» of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine.

The urban renewal project includes improving the attractiveness and the opening up of the window on the residential area around. This urban planning takes part on refurbished and new habitations, supplying new equipment and public spaces, re-qualifying and diversifying new economic activities. The school complex plays a leading role in the reconstruction of the neighbourhood.

The Client’s objectives aim to implement a project inscribed in the urban project and  provide a functional and qualitative answer to the two new schools.

The project attachs an important part to environmental quality, by answering four HQE targets at a very high level and five targets to high level.

A LANDSCAPE PROJECT

Between the park and the infrastructure of the gymnasium, the new school complex is, by a set of platforms, a stepped topography taking advantage of the best orientations (light and views) of the site.

The sky lines and the soil lines organize the building into several successive trays: this typology extends the existing built device, amplifies the aerial effect anchored on the topography and offers visual breakthroughs to the neighborhood.

The geometry of the broken lines of the project organizes the perspective lines on the scale of the children. The school reinforces with power, the linearity of the park and hangs up inhabited and planted terraces which open generously to the light and the views.