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  Project Title

  Jean Louis Étienne School

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  archi5

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  archi5

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  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Educational, Institutional

• Project Location
  Coupvray, France
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  2021


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  archi5
• Lead Architect(s)
  archi5
• About Firm
  Manufacturers: Carrière du Hainaut, Roof complex global roof, Silvabp, VM Zinc Acoustic engineer: Cap Horn Solutions Landscaper: Atelier Roberta Kitchen Engineer:Alma Consulting City:Coupvray

The school group is the very first element of a new district in the Coupvray development area. More than having to deal with the particular constraints of a site, the main challenge is to create a founding and structuring public facility for the future inhabitants of this extension of the town. The building expresses the town-country boundary through two distinct vocabularies, thus creating a transition between the public and the private. From the outside, the Hainaut blue stone gives it a mineral aspect that fades away in its heart to the benefit of the organic.

Photographs: Sergio Grazia