Architect：Olivier Palatre Architectes

Location：11 Rue Pajol, Paris, France

Project Year：2011

Category：Nurseries

The project is a significant rehabilitation work involving the accomodation of interior and exterior spaces, as well as the design of suitable furniture.

The building used to be in poor condition, even with its obvious architectural qualities: the brick and the generous openings on the outside in the rooms upstairs. The façade overlooking the courtyard is designed as the optimistic and strongly identifiable urban signal of the kindergarten. It unfolds on all three levels, creating a fun environment for the children. On the ground floor, the façade is slightly set back to make of the courtyard the real agora of the building as well as a sunny area.

The interior spaces raise a wide range of emotions: the different colours on the walls, the variable geometry of the furniture, the heterogeneous materials and pleasant to the touch (wood, rubber, metal, etc.) to provide a stimulating and positive environment for the children and the staff. The Kindergarten located on Rue Pajol is at the core of a district in complete renewal in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

A preschool rainbow : The rainbow has become the driving force behind the project, because it both fascinates all children, and is associated with joy and happiness, heralding a time of good weather after the rain. The different colors of the rainbow were applied on the project to guide children. They also play the role of identification in our project: the doors of health are red, to mark the urgency. Each level has a specific color.

The doors of the classrooms have the same color on their floor. We wanted the walls of the classrooms to be white so that children can fully express themselves. The language of color is the first taken up by children, the building should be familiar to children so the color is present in all spaces. It is both signs (toilets, differentiation levels, classrooms) and fun (games of hopscotch in the yard, snake, educational garden...).

Learning letters is addressed to kindergarten, so we registered with the type used for the teaching of writing, the name of any premises for the children to be bathed in a colorful but also literate. Legend has it that at the foot of a rainbow, is a treasure. The treasure may be the new building, or rather the children, who are the future The treasure is the education of our children is fundamental to our society.

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