Jules Verne School | archi5

Architecture, Educational Buildings, Schools

The goal of Jules Verne School was the profound Modi cation of the school’s image. We proposed an organization based on users comfort. The children are considered as the project center by giving them a qualitative learning place. From an urban scale, la Place de l’Enfance is refurbished and become a new public space and a landmark for the neighborhood.

photography by © Sergio Grazia

The urban façade unifies all parts of the school in a coherent project. Each part (infant school, primary school, leisure center…) remains independent but reunited in a whole renewed identity. The vegetated roof in the wooden structure on the first floor connects and uni es the three emergences of existing and refurbished parts. Each volume has its function: infant school on East, a primary school on West, leisure centers and common parts on the central zone. The roof and light façades, all in wooden structure allowed to lead works with fewer nuisances indifferent in an occupied site. The parts were pre-fabricated in a workshop to be pieced together quickly and following a dry implementation.

photography by © Sergio Grazia

The building façades present high thermic efficiency, acoustic insulation, and airtightness which is mandatory for a low consumption project. Our proposition, with its smooth and flexible geometry, allows future evolutions of use while preserving the original concept.