The new apprentice school is dedicated to the learning of construction jobs (masonry, woodworking, steelworking, electricity, painting...) We wanted the school to be a pride reason for the students. We designed it as a rational, human and generous building.

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Architects: archi5

Location: Brétigny-sur-Orge, France

Area: 8171.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Sergio Grazia

Client : BTP-CFA Île de France.

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From the architect. The new apprentice school is dedicated to the learning of construction jobs (masonry, woodworking, steelworking, electricity, painting...) We wanted the school to be a pride reason for the students. We designed it as a rational, human and generous building.
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Floor Plan

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It is conceived as a small scale campus. Connected to public space through a large parvis, it?s a welcoming and reassuring public facility. The facades evoke the knowledge about building jobs teached inside the school. The courtyard is the heart of the school, thinked as an Agora. It?s a metaphor of a cloister with its central garden surrounded by a covered path. This walkway is animated by the reflects on inox cladding and leads to two larges sh...