Samuel–Paty Secondary School in Valenton / Archipente
Textual content material description provided by the architects. Three buildings, three options – Located on the nook of Avenue Man-Môquet and Rue du Colonel-Fabien, the endeavor consists of three separate buildings which will carry out independently. The first entrances to the educational setting up and the gymnasium are positioned on Mail Yvonne-Hagnauer, a simply recently opened pedestrian house by the municipality of Valenton between Rue du 8-Mai-1945 and Rue du Colonel-Fabien. This home is protected in opposition to automotive web site guests, providing a relaxed and secure setting for faculty youngsters and households. The six staff lodging (double or triple-oriented T5 residences) are positioned to the north of the plot, associated to the residential materials of the neighborhood. They face Avenue Man-Môquet, allowing occupants to disconnect from their expert setting.
The gymnasium incorporates a collective sports activities actions space (for handball, basketball, and so forth.), a dance studio, and a 14-meter-high climbing wall. It provides quite a few modes of operation counting on the day, time, and clients. Outdoor of faculty hours, it’s made accessible to associations and sports activities actions golf tools. The underside flooring, which faculty college students can entry instantly from the faculty grounds, houses the multipurpose hall, altering rooms, and bogs. The first flooring is totally dedicated to sports activities actions actions. It’s composed of wooden frames with underlying beams and is punctuated by tall openings on the northwest façade, extended by 5 rectangular roof lights oriented within the path of the northeastern delicate.
The secondary college faculty college students have a bicycle and scooter parking house, sheltered by the duvet that borders the doorway gate. They entry the lecture rooms from the playground (a program requirement) by crossing the coated walkway positioned beneath the educational setting up. The south-facing orientation of the setting up permits for optimum winter picture voltaic constructive elements and protects the lecture rooms from the summer time season heat with motorized blinds (adjustable and tiltable slats). Most of the time, the playground is just shaded by vegetation. Inside, the predominant colors are white, picket, and raw concrete.
The sunshine tones harmonize with the brightness of the areas. Appreciable pure delicate is achieved by way of regular strips of triple glazing set inside wood-aluminum hybrid frames. Over 100 delicate ducts (stainless-steel tubes, curved or straight) current pure lighting to the central corridors and the once more of smart workrooms (for creative and scientific coaching).
All facades share the an identical design language, whether or not or not it’s the tutorial setting up, the gymnasium, or the staff lodging. The spandrels, house home windows, and blinds have a cream shade that echoes the picket interiors. The MOB (wooden physique) fillings are clad with delicate gray fiber cement panels (Equitone). Metallic sunshades, showing as photo voltaic breakers, are put in in entrance of the staircases and distinctive areas (such as a result of the library {{and gymnasium}}) to create numerous lighting atmospheres, their kinetics guided by the purpose of day and daylight.
As is customary, ARCHIPENTE has anticipated the potential of placing in photovoltaic panels on the “fifth façade” of the buildings. The south-facing roof slopes, technical provisions, and structural dimensions are designed to accommodate the burden of the panels and their frameworks. Considering the quite a few rise in energy prices, the division has embraced the considered manufacturing its private electrical vitality. A look at has been accepted to implement a photovoltaic vitality plant on the school’s rooftops. The endeavor will then meet the components for “Passive Plus Establishing” certification.
Open plan, full of life framework – There are mainly two strategies to assemble energy-efficient buildings. The first entails relying on thick insulation and the effectivity of machines. The second technique entails optimizing the design half, considering that what’s simply not spent on know-how is perhaps invested in supplies alternatives and areas. In Valenton, the second technique is clearly favored. Picket is a superb ally on this regard. As an alternative of a concrete building, a timber physique can accommodate the overwhelming majority of insulation inside its framework. In full, roughly 1,000 m3 of picket, 85% of which is sourced from France, is used inside the endeavor.
Establishing the flooring using dry growth methods requires actual structural planning. The entire glulam frames are put in on a 120 cm grid, a measurement that cor- responds to the standard width of a picket panel (or picket by-product). In consequence, all dimensions inside the endeavor are multiples of 30 cm (60 cm, 1.20 m, 2.40 m, 3.60 m, and so forth.). No partition partitions hinder the principle of open-plan buildings, which allows for flexibility in modifying partitions based mostly on evolving desires. Concrete cores for staircases and a few diagonal bracing elements are sufficient to stabilize the wooden building.
The concept of an “full of life framework” is one different valuable software program for the endeavor’s flexibility, envisioned by ARCHIPENTE. It entails reserving an prolonged sequence of service ducts on each aspect of the central corridors for dis- tributing electrical vitality and utilities. This method simplifies the administration of home for the double-flow air circulate system, reduces the plenum peak of false ceilings, and permits entry to technical elements with out disrupting the lecture rooms. This technique could be notably helpful when implementing the photovoltaic electrical vitality know-how system for the faculty. As a result of the illustrious Alvaro Siza highlighted, “Construction begins when all constraints have been built-in.”
