Article source: GRAAL ARCHITECTURE

The construction of the Jaurès recreation center provided the city of Athis-Mons with an opportunity to equip itself with a facility for small children adapted to open learning methods and at the same time help to reduce the pressures of the towns growing population.

The zone is characterized by its geography, a very fragile alluvial plain between the Seine and the Orge, which was ideal for locating important railway infrastructure and urban development stretching lengthwise form the southwest to the northeast. This area is subject to a number of rights of way exposing it to important nuisances. Thus, the Jaurès school complex plays the strategic urban role of liaison with the rest of the neighborhood. The school complex stands in a residential area comprised of a number of period buildings of varying typologies. The urban challenges of the project were to create a pleasant entry opening onto the pedestrian area and the church of Notre-Dame de la Voie as well as to undertake an urban and architectural recomposition in which the recreation center plays the role of connecter between the different scales.

Image Courtesy © Schnepp Renou

• Architects: GRAAL ARCHITECTURE
• Project: Recreation center
• Location: Athis-Mons, France
• Photography: Schnepp Renou
• Architect, Cost Management: Graal
• Structure: Astuce béton
• M&E Engineer: Sunsquare
• Budget: 2 M€ HT
• Surface: 610 m²
• Calendar: Delivered in October 2019

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