Cornebarrieu : Children’s centre

The exterior spaces all have their specific uses. First of all, planting in intervals forms a kind of barrier. These screens manage and distinguish the vis à vis and filter the light and heat on the southern side of the site. In other areas of the site they will be pruned in order to create visual guides from one functional entity to another helping to establish a pretext for learning, for discovery and for observing nature: flowers, nest birds, fauna.

Next, we consider lessons; open play spaces are framed by learning and teaching spaces. These spaces alternating in a polychromatic and material way, offer a vast space for collective play in the open air. Next, the interior galleries; 4 metres large, closed and covered. These galleries are incorporated in the exterior spaces, bathed in overhead light and planted with large leafy trees. At the heart of the canteen, these trees will be sheathed in translucent casts allowing them to benefit from the external climatic conditions while offering children an astonishing visual and tactile element to interact with. The recreation areas benefit from a micro climate. Finally the planted car park assures space for parking.