A new college in a French village | CoCo architecture

Architectes
CoCo architecture et Jean de Giacinto Architecture Composite

Maîtrise d’ouvrage
Département de l’Isère

Autre acteurs de l’équipe de maîtrise d’oeuvre
Bureau d’études TCE : BETREC
Paysagiste : Atelier Roberta
Acousticien : Sigma
Cuisiniste: GBA cuisine
HQE : Terre Eco
Coloriste : frédérique f.thomas
Signalétique : Anne-Flore Labrunie
BIM manager: Atelier Nomades architecture

mission concours lauréat, base loi MOP+EXE+SSI+SIGN +BIM

date 2017-2020
surface 7445 m² SDO
prix 15 M€ HT
lieu Champier (38) FRANCE
Label et certifications HQE

The architecture of the college is marked by the directional, colored brise-soleil slats, which form a monochrome reminding of nature. surrounding area. Thus, the building operates like a piece of landscape, forming from the road a first plan to the hill wooded. The vertical rhythms, evolving in the seasons and users, sequencing the sequence of the building, such as tree trunks rhythm the forest.
The college is thought like a play articulating a new facet of the urban village of Champier by ensuring covisibilities equipment with space public. Its base is made of glass translucent or opalescent, giving to see a modular room, the plastic art room and the entrance hall. The courtyard is open on the esplanade while the half-board makes the interface with the main street. The gymnasium, shared with the municipality, participates also to the dynamics that such a impulse equipment in the village. It has a glass ground floor that communicates with the inner street. Out of time school, the gymnasium gives life to the village with a polycarbonate facade that illuminates the landscape.