Text description provided by the architects. The NOMADE architectes agency recently delivered a reception and leisure centre in Ablon-sur-Seine. Located on a dense site, the reception and leisure centre is positioned between the primary school building forming part of the Pierre et Marie Curie school complex and a personnel accommodation building to the east. This layout led to an architecture based on two compact volumes. Courtesy of Nomade ArchitectsThe four programme entities, being the reception area, nursery hub, primary hub and dining room, are all either physically or visually linked to the schoolyard, being the project’s main outdoor space. Inside, the ground floor is handled in a way adapted to the youngest children, notably by avoiding long distribution corridors. To permit fluid circulation movements, most classrooms have a double access, either from the hall and corridors or from the schoolyard. The three nursery hub activities rooms are provided with direct access to a rest and clean-up room. These can operate independently and permit the best possible exchanges between spaces. East ElevationThe distribution of classrooms on the upper floor is organised according to the building’s orientation and a search for sunshine and luminosity. Access decks, lightwells and fittings have been designed to meet these needs. Spaces independent from one another and devoted to reading or activities have been laid out to give greater independence to the children in the primary hub. © Luc BoeglyThe environmental impact of the building was taken into consideration throughout the development of the project from the works through to choice of materials and the long-term maintenance of the building This timber framed building integrates structural challenges through cantilevers façade offsets and the incorporation of large glazed openings The composition of the timber framework walls provides a very high performance level and resulted in the reception centre receiving a BBB (low consumption building) label A semi-extensive planted roof comprising various plant species completes the 5th façade You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email inserting a reception and leisure center into the middle of pierre et marie curie school complex, paris-based firm nomade architectes has divided the mass into two volumes the dense site is positioned between a primary school and a personnel accommodation building in response to these constraints a set of boxes and offsets were designed allowing the center to breathe despite its confines – the incorporation of solids and voids patios and double height ceilings were applied throughout the four main programs; the reception area primary hub and dining room are all either physically or visually linked to the outdoor schoolyard enabling a sense of flow across the site and through the building most of the classrooms have double access points either from the interior hallway and corridors or from the outside the exterior façades conduct a sense of movement with breaks in their vertical layouts through large glazed panels while the northern side opens to the existing school and reception area the volume is positioned in the middle of pierre et marie curie school compleximage © luc boegly the layout on the ground floor has been adapted for its use by young children notably through the avoidance of long corridors and circulation routes high levels of daylight are filtered through to the building’s interior spaces with the orientation of the upper floor classrooms organized according to the orientation of the sun the overall environmental impact was taken into consideration from its construction to the choice of materials and also the long-term maintenance required integrating challenges such as cantilevers façade offsets and large glazed openings with their composition providing a high performance and low levels of energy consumption the building opens out to an existing schoolyard image © luc boegly with breaks in their vertical layoutimage © luc boegly the mass is divided by two volumes in response to the dense nature of the site image © luc boegly interior view of the activity roomimage © luc boegly the interior spaces are all either physically or visually linked to the outdoor schoolyardimage © luc boegly (left) primary room(right) hallimages © luc boegly the massing consists of boxes and offsets allowing the center to breathe despite its confinesimage © luc boegly designboom has received this project from our ‘DIY submissions‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style That’s exactly what the French sidecar specialists, Alternative Sidecar, have just done. Based in Ablon-sur-Seine (about ten miles from the Parisian city center), their latest build pairs a modern Indian Scout with a new version of one of their existing sidecar designs Except this one’s been finished with luxurious leather and wood finishes all that was left was to find a suitable donor They settled on a current-model Indian Scout 1200 and sourced one from the Indian dealership in Valence Their proprietary attachment system doesn’t require any frame mods on the parent bike which means that they can now offer this new ‘Gran’Sport’ unit as a kit The bike itself has been fitted with stiffer fork springs and a stronger set of rear shocks from Shock Factory to match But it’s that Riva-inspired wood trim that steals the show Working with solid mahogany as a primary wood Jacques hand-shaped the floor and outer step and added a stripe that runs down the front The pin striping was laid down by Taka Hira—a well-respected striper in France with over 40 years experience It sits on a green base with just a hint of flake with gold tank logos that were hand-painted by Studio Kallico Alternative Sidecar Instagram | Images by Franck Blanquin GET THE WORLD'S BEST CUSTOMS DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX COPYRIGHT © 2008-document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) | COLE PUBLISHING | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED