Faculty of Medicine at University Claude Bernard, Lyon Building, French Architecture, Images
Faculty of Medicine at University Claude Bernard in Lyon
Rockefeller University Building, southern France ? design by Vurpas Architectes
25 Jan 2017
Rockefeller University
Design: Vurpas Architectes
Location: Lyon, southern France
Requalification of the Rockefeller site, Faculty of Medicine Lyon East, University Claude Bernard Lyon

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The first phase of the renovation of the Lyon East Faculty of Medicine is a milestone in the history of Vurpas Architectes’s work on the Rockefeller site.

The architects undertook their first project on the site in 2009, with the construction of the Jean-François Cier building. Designed to replace the somewhat dilapidated Hermann amphitheatre, built in 1968, the new building contains all the spaces needed for teaching medical students, and adopted an architectural style that fitted in with the wider university campus, which had fallen into disuse.
In 2011, as part of a framework agreement, the agency was tasked with drawing up a charter for the restoration of the whole of the original building. This charter was intended as a guideline for any work on the site in the near future or longer term, to ensure the greatest possible coherence.

The diagnostic, based on a study of all the heritage, architectural and technical considerations, and extensive research carried out allowed users of the building to re-discover the many qualities of ...