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School project Cristino Garcia. A school and a gymnasium implanted in the City of Saint Denis (93) near to the big ‘Stade de France’, a place where industry is very present. We’ve worked with a wooden façade, massive wooden paneling where the ornamentation repeats the vernacular drawing of the industrial buildings made of bricks and steel. This drawing was applied on the wooden paneling and on the aluminum sheet which envelopes an existing metallic hall, resembling to the EIFFEL structure.

© aavp architecture . Pubblicata il 12 Maggio 2009.

Between built inheritance and social memory, the aim for this project existed in the re-interpretation of “the new” and “the existing” in an allegorical fusion. In fact, the richness of the ornamentation of our industrial buildings and the spaces that result from them, are lost in our collective memory. We have tried to rehabilitate this icon, to enrich it with a contemporary value adapted to the existing construction. In fact, the project will be constructed in wood, both structurally and in its finishing, with a true preoccupation and engagement towards the nobility and durability of the materials. Each façade is decorated with a drawing, a motive evoking bricks and the line-work of steel structures. A “vernacular architecture” diverted in a free interpretation by applying wood like ‘marquetry’, pushing certain details to the extreme to obtain ‘Moucharabieh’ effects. It’s an erudite cutting of the constructive constraints and an implementation of the paneling placed in a rhombus-pattern, marked by a hollow. The windows open up the façade. The position of these windows is depending on the elements indicating the rhythm by a range of perforations, with the aim to make our project a “precious and solid” wooden (jewelry) box.

© aavp architecture . Pubblicata il 12 Maggio 2009.

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