Sawtooth lanterns on a brick plinth: the factory reimagined as a creative learning environment.
- Invited competition entry for a new home for the École Bleue, a school for the creative arts in Paris
- Varied brief including classrooms, VR space, amphitheatre, exhibitions, workshops, library and café, as well as ad-hoc mixing and interstitial space
- Site adjacent to the four-lane Périphérique motorway
- Roof gardens and sheltered landscape incorporated into the building
- Prefabricated structure uses cross-laminated timber panels on a precast concrete base