Collège Moulins secondary school in Lille is both a building and a landscape, illuminating and interacting with its environment. Underpinned by its context and close relationship with the city, the circular layout is focused on a south-facing central courtyard.  Two perspectives are presented:  – the ground level is dedicated to pedestrian life, marking out the facility’s footprint while playing with transparency and lines of sight; – the upper level is a topographic landscape that reveals the three core elements of the project: the school, the sports hall and the boarding facility. A single wrapping of pre-patinated zinc creates a unified whole, establishing an emblematic identity for the facility and its neighbourhood.