Boulogne Billancourt School

Chartier-Dalix architectes, Energy and sustainability, High Density, Middle Density, Project, Territory and mobility

Active Building, Ecological agencies, Ecological researches, Energetic Approach, Facilities, Project, Public buildings, Public Space, Public space role, School, Territorial Approach

The project presents a mixed program to build a school, a gymnasium, but also incorporate a third element: encouraging biodiversity. It has been designed as part of a particularly innovative program, environmentally speaking. The concept of the building relies on the development of a primary landscape which would draw its textures and components from the wider landscape in which it is set. This project may well signal the start of a new trend: striving to return biodiversity to the heart of urban areas. More than any other project, building a school is an opportunity to rethink the fundamental conceptual connections between poetry, education and nature, drawing inspiration from new aesthetic impulses. Thus, the building takes up the challenge of recreating a fully functional ecosystem as a place of learning, a space where local children will go to fulfill their potential, but also a social hub for local residents.