Elementary school
The Gill Geryl elementary school project addresses environmental issues by integrating bioclimatic concepts: green roofs, wooden curtain walls, organization around a cloister, and optimization of solar gains.
The work on the building's volumetry offers an overall perception, while avoiding the "block" effect, through the unfolding of facades, the interplay of roofs, and the placement of three distinct volumes while still forming a unit.
The building aims to be as integrated as possible into the context, achieving this through the insertion of the building into the site's topography and incorporating elements of vernacular architecture.
To design a school is to question the position of the child within the school and, conversely, the position of school in a child's life. The playgrounds have been designed to be as protected as possible; they are located at the heart of the establishment, and at the same time, their location prevents any noise disturbance to the neighbours from children's activities during recess. The classrooms offer different views depending on their location, so that the classroom landscape changes according to the child's school years, in harmony with their own development.
Constructed largely using dry construction methods to limit construction time and noise disturbances, it was completed in the spring of 2021.
