Samuel–Paty Secondary Faculty in Valenton / Archipente

Samuel–Paty Secondary Faculty in Valenton / Archipente

Textual content description supplied by the architects. Three buildings, three features – Situated on the nook of Avenue Man-Môquet and Rue du Colonel-Fabien, the undertaking consists of three separate buildings that may perform independently. The primary entrances to the academic constructing and the gymnasium are positioned on Mail Yvonne-Hagnauer, a just lately opened pedestrian space by the municipality of Valenton between Rue du 8-Mai-1945 and Rue du Colonel-Fabien. This house is protected against automotive site visitors, offering a relaxed and safe setting for college kids and households. The six employees lodging (double or triple-oriented T5 residences) are positioned to the north of the plot, related to the residential material of the neighborhood. They face Avenue Man-Môquet, permitting occupants to disconnect from their skilled setting.

The gymnasium incorporates a collective sports activities area (for handball, basketball, and so on.), a dance studio, and a 14-meter-high climbing wall. It gives numerous modes of operation relying on the day, time, and customers. Outdoors of college hours, it’s made accessible to associations and sports activities golf equipment. The bottom flooring, which college students can entry immediately from the college grounds, homes the multipurpose corridor, altering rooms, and bogs. The primary flooring is completely devoted to sports activities actions. It’s composed of wood frames with underlying beams and is punctuated by tall openings on the northwest façade, prolonged by 5 rectangular roof lights oriented in the direction of the northeastern mild.

The secondary faculty college students have a bicycle and scooter parking space, sheltered by the cover that borders the doorway gate. They entry the lecture rooms from the playground (a program requirement) by crossing the coated walkway positioned beneath the academic constructing. The south-facing orientation of the constructing permits for optimum winter photo voltaic positive aspects and protects the lecture rooms from the summer season warmth with motorized blinds (adjustable and tiltable slats). More often than not, the playground is simply shaded by vegetation. Inside, the predominant colours are white, wooden, and uncooked concrete.

The sunshine tones harmonize with the brightness of the areas. Considerable pure mild is achieved via steady strips of triple glazing set inside wood-aluminum hybrid frames. Over 100 mild ducts (stainless-steel tubes, curved or straight) present pure lighting to the central corridors and the again of sensible workrooms (for inventive and scientific training).

All facades share the identical design language, whether or not it is the academic constructing, the gymnasium, or the employees lodging. The spandrels, home windows, and blinds have a cream shade that echoes the wooden interiors. The MOB (wood body) fillings are clad with mild grey fiber cement panels (Equitone). Metal sunshades, appearing as solar breakers, are put in in entrance of the staircases and distinctive areas (such because the library {and gymnasium}) to create diverse lighting atmospheres, their kinetics guided by the point of day and daylight.

As is customary, ARCHIPENTE has anticipated the potential of putting 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. Contemplating the numerous rise in power costs, the division has embraced the thought of manufacturing its personal electrical energy. A examine has been accepted to implement a photovoltaic energy plant on the faculty’s rooftops. The undertaking will then meet the factors for “Passive Plus Constructing” certification. 

Open plan, lively framework – There are basically two methods to assemble energy-efficient buildings. The primary entails counting on thick insulation and the effectivity of machines. The second strategy entails optimizing the design part, contemplating that what is just not spent on know-how might be invested in materials selections and areas. In Valenton, the second strategy is clearly favored. Wooden is a wonderful ally on this regard. As a substitute of a concrete construction, a timber body can accommodate the vast majority of insulation inside its framework. In complete, roughly 1,000 m3 of wooden, 85% of which is sourced from France, is used within the undertaking.

Establishing the flooring utilizing dry development strategies requires exact structural planning. All of the glulam frames are put in on a 120 cm grid, a measurement that cor- responds to the usual width of a wooden panel (or wooden by-product). In consequence, all dimensions within the undertaking are multiples of 30 cm (60 cm, 1.20 m, 2.40 m, 3.60 m, and so on.). No partition partitions hinder the precept of open-plan buildings, which permits for flexibility in modifying partitions based on evolving wants. Concrete cores for staircases and some diagonal bracing components are enough to stabilize the wood construction.

The idea of an “lively framework” is one other precious software for the undertaking’s flexibility, envisioned by ARCHIPENTE. It entails reserving an extended sequence of service ducts on both facet of the central corridors for dis- tributing electrical energy and utilities. This technique simplifies the administration of house for the double-flow air flow system, reduces the plenum peak of false ceilings, and permits entry to technical components with out disrupting the lecture rooms. This strategy can be notably useful when implementing the photovoltaic electrical energy technology system for the college. Because the illustrious Alvaro Siza highlighted, “Structure begins when all constraints have been built-in.”