Lycée Franco-Allemand Buc France, Paris School Building Complex Photos, French Modern Architecture
Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc, Versailles
31 Aug 2022
Architecture: Behnisch Architekten (Germany) with Atelier 2A+ (France)
Location: 7 rue Collin Marnet, 78530 Buc, France

Photos © David Matthiessen
Lycée Franco-Allemand School, France
A binational educational concept
Built in collaboration with Atelier 2A+, the goal was to modernise the site of an existing school dating from the 1980s, including a Franco-German bilingual secondary school, a primary school, a lower secondary school and gymnasium, and to link them together with outdoor enhancements to strengthen the identity of the campus. This approach has resulted in the creation of an attractive place of learning for approximately 1,000 students, standing in a park amidst magnificent trees, with far more to offer than a mere educational establishment in the traditional understanding of the term.
The original school campus could no longer meet the requirements of today, leading local authorities to launch an international competition for the restructuring and enlargement of the school campus in 2015, won by Behnisch Architekten in association with the Atelier 2A+.
Some parts of the existing secondary school have been kept and two new buildings built: the primary school, designed as a pavilion in the park in the northern area, and the gymnasium, which completes the overall composition towards the southern area. Thus, th...