Biodiversity School and Gymnasium, Boulogne Billancourt (92)
An innovative design process produced a building that combines two project elements into a “living” whole, designed to play host to a diversity of flora and fauna. The challenge was to create a roof-level ecosystem: untamed nature blending with the texture of its residential perimeter. The answer is fluidity, creating links between volumes and voids, drawing contour lines to keep discontinuities to a minimum. The building becomes a piece of extruded terrain, an elevated landscape where a sheltered native habitat – the urban canopy – can freely evolve, protected by humanity. It is a process of natural development that will take time. The building’s appearance is subject to the laws of nature.
Client | Saem Val de Seine |
Area | 6 766 m² NIA |
Tech. Cons. | EVP (structure), Cferm (HVAC), F. Bougon (cost analysis), F. Boutté (Hqe), A.E.U. (ecologist), Biodiversita (biodiversity), Begc (kitchen design), Peutz (Accoustics) |
Cost | €18 M before tax |
Delivery | 2015 (management and ecological monitoring plan in progress) |
Mission | Complete |
Lead | ChartierDalix architectes |
Project manager | Sophie Deramond |
Project | School buildings, 18 classrooms with a regional, certified, type C gym and leisure centre |
Hqe | Hqe certification for the school building with 8 targets scored VG and 2 targets G, Hqe process for the gym |
Photos | Myr Muratet, Takuji Shimmura, Cyrille Weiner |