Crèche municipale
The project is located in a residential area consisting of attached houses. Simple and coherent, the neigborhood has a certain identity and a remarkable unity.
The project of municipal nursery is located at the entrance of the area. Its location makes it a particularly visible equipment, questioning the character and definition of the future building.
The architectural argument is that of a landmark building, typical and representative of the neighborhood, but at the same time able to distinguish clearly from the housing typology and assert its own peculiarity.
The plan is based on a simple short square grid that determines the same template spaces.
Each space is a volumetric unit which compact size and short tiled roofs reduce to a domestic scale, unimposing, conveying to young children the reassuring image of a second home.
The overall volume of the project corresponds to a composition of these small entities.
The well arranged roofs reminds a child cube game that seems to have found its ideal arrangement.
Designed according to a principle of succession of spaces, the interior project is a succession of colorful rooms in monochrome. The perception of spaces varies depending on the viewing direction, which helps children’s awakening and identifying in the nursery.
The plan is also structured by thick brick walls which "return" in the openings, which allows to create multiple storage in the recesses and a free interior space.
The architectural expression, both minimal, neutral and repetitive, with regular openings and identical front, has a particular plasticity, giving the building a strange presence, somewhat abstract, and a unique expression giving it a true "stature" public equipment.
