Jean Moulin High School
The city of Revin is nestled in the meanders of the Meuse, on the Charleville road to Belgium. Revin is surrounded by forest, steep hills and gentle slopes. The Cite Scolaire Jean Moulin was built at the dawn of the 60s in the district of Orzy, a little outside of the city on the banks of the Meuse. It was designed in an orthogonal configuration of three levels, in line with the Modern style, in the era of the rationalist. Half a century later time has taken its toll and the aging of both building and equipment has made its reconstruction necessary. Especially since teaching methods and technology have progressed considerably, and the ?wonder? material asbestos has been proven to cause harm. On July 14th, 2010 a violent gust of wind removed the roof of Jean Moulin secondary school, a few months later 50cm of snow fell in a few hours; were these signs from nature meant to draw people?s attention to the state of disrepair"
It was in 2007 that the region launched a competition for the redevelopment of the school.
Courtesy of OFF Architecture – Photographs: Cyrille Weiner
The aim was to demolish and rebuild the entire school complex. The phasing of the work was crucial so as to have limited impact on school activities. It quickly became a headache for architects and engineers, as they wrestled with constraint after constraint. The winning project was based on a strong and shared concern for the rebuilding of the relationship between the bu...