SITUATION AND URBAN ENVIRONMENT

The project is built in an area surrounded by public facilities in a residential suburban character near Paris. The proposed extension is built while maintaining the wooded character of the bottom plot. The neighboring houses are built in traditional forms with gabled roofs, thereby extending the crib comes with a gabled roof curved. To insert the building in an environmentally sound approach, structure, roofing and siding are made entirely of wood components. Although the structure is wood, the generally rounded shape of the building is “born” of the desire to represent  “…a boa constrictor digesting an elephant …”  This analogy refers to the stories of the famous story “The Little Prince” by paying tribute to Antoine de Saint-Exupery … when he was a little boy.

Le Petite Prince Nursery School

• Architect: AR + TE ARCHITECTS
• Client: City of SAINT-NOM-LA-BRETECHE
• Surface: 193 m²
• Budget: 405 000 € HT
• Architect Contractor: CARLOS BARBA  AR + TE, ARchitecture + TErritoire (Paris)
• Architect co-contractor: JUAN NIETO PARRA (Paris)
• Engineering firm: CTC INGENIERIE (Versailles)
• Control Office: DEKRA (Trappes)
• Calendar: Studies in November 2009 – February 2010 (4 months),
  Building Permit : February 2010,
  Pile Foundations: June-July 2010 (two months),
  Restructuring existing part of August 2010 (one month),
  Building industrial wood August-September-October 2010 (three months),
  Installation of wood structural panels (three days),
• Completion: October 2011.
• Location: 3 Place Henri HAMEL 78860 SAINT-NOM-LA-BRETECHE
• Photographs: AR + TE ARCHITECTS
• Companies: OBM CONSTRUCTION (Building wood),
  EGCM (GO), INEO (ELECT) CLIMAIRTEC (FLUID) (more…)