COURTYARD 03
The Chemin Vert nursery school is located in Verneuil sur Seine, a few hundred meters from the Seine, downstream from Paris. The project attempts to make the most of a heterogeneous and wooded environment.
The new courtyard is positioned at the south-western corner of the nursery school. On the site boundaries, it continues the framing of the courtyard initiated by the existing school building typical of the 60s. The geometry of the roof, which is hollowed out by the first arc, follows the parcel boundary and contributes to a soft delimitation of the recreation space
Supported by thin steel posts at its interface with the courtyard but by thick concrete posts and a peripheral base at the property line, the structure is oriented towards the playground. A wooden coffered ceiling gives the covered space a clean, domestic identity. Despite its mixed concrete/metal/wood structure, the construction remains homogeneous.
A second arc at the corner of the plot hollows out the roof to let an existing tree pass through. The façade on the street signals the intervention from the public space by proposing a comprehensive reading of the project: a concrete base and a lacquered aluminum band frame a wooden cladding. The thickness of the peripheral band is the same as the cornice of the existing building. The new courtyard is part of a clear but flexible continuity.
In order to affirm the domestic character and to reinforce its use, two wooden benches of varying heights finalize the whole.
