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Ecole louis De vion Montévrain
Education Building in Northern France – design by Vincent Parreira Atelier Architecture
18 Sep 2017
Louis de Vion school group in Montévrain
Design: Vincent Parreira Atelier Architecture – AAVP
Location: Montévrain is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Louis de Vion school Montévrain near Paris
Design of a new elementary school in France
Photos: Luc Boegly
Once across the threshold of this school complex near Paris delivered by the architect Vincent Parreira, the child enters a non-standard world, one that evokes the troglodyte houses, vernacular architecture? or a pupil?s escape.
In the 21st century metropolises, as urbanization has continued to expand, there are still some areas that have remained virgin territory. The site chosen for building the school was such a case. At the time of the competition, it was an empty lot bordered by vast farming concerns, the famous caricature that seemed a thing of the past, the ?beet fields? that saw new towns and housing projects popping up during the post war boom decades. In a context with vague outlines, the building takes up its position, organized to form a little miniature town, a school hamlet. It extends along a narrow little pedestrian street, forming a continuous built front, but fragmented into several volumes and provi...