This multi-care facility and games library - Maison De L'Enfance or the Gavroche Centre for Children designed by SOA Architectes in Saint Ouen, France merges in with the site's contextual surroundings and creates a place for social interaction and shared community public spaces. The building is part of a wider urban development scheme situated around the Victor Hugo Garden.
The centre is a place for educational leisure - where children and adolescents are able to develop their unique individualities through collective games and workshops.
The building's functional organisation evolved around the central hall - which is the focal point of the centre, which is entirely open to the public (like a street).
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The staggered timber boxes create a number of outdoor terraces, and flexible orange screens mediate the amount of sunlight allowed to penetrate the interior space.
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Street view.
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Colour is used inside to separate the interior 'zones'. Open spaces and light wells - offern natural ventilation and lighting and transparency between the spaces.
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The circulation space is defined by the use of the colour orange - which enables easy orientation throughout the building.
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Rendered axonometric showing the buildings plan and layout. Nature has been considered and integrated into the buildings spatial layout - creating a dialogue between the inside and out.
Via DesignBoom and ArchDaily.
SOA has also completed a number of other educational facilities, all of which have a wider concern for the community - providing additional facilities and landscaped public space:
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Nanterre School designed in 2010 and located in Sainte Genevieve, Nanterre - 15 class school and children's leisure centre.
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Environmental Creche in Saint-Gratien.
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Crèche and nursery school extension in Krüger, Rue de Colombes, deisgned in 2012.
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School and Children's Leisure Centre designed in 2010 and located in Saint-Pierre-Les-Nemours including a nursery school, canteen, leisure centre, club house, landscaped playground and town hall.
All designs are environmentally conscious - and use both natural materials - concrete and wood and artificially composite materials introducing colour deliberately to space to further enhance it's characteristics.
Via SOA Architectes.
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