Architect：Ameller Dubois

Location：2 Rue Riera et Christy, 95240 Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France; | ;View Map

Project Year：2023

Category：Secondary Schools

The new high school in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, is the central component of the vast urban development plan for the Zone des Battiers-Ouest, which will bring together a range of educational, athletic, and cultural facilities by the end of 2025. Designed to accommodate 1,200 pupils, the Philippe Kieffer high school includes teaching, administrative and logistical premises, a half-board facility and 9 individual staff residences.

This high school takes advantage of the trapezoidal shape of its plot to take on an L-shaped plan. Its facades are aligned along the roadways and its wide forecourt marks the presence of this large educational facility in the city. With its compact, unitary shape, the project rests on a mineral perimeter base. This treatment, which follows the movement of the angle between the two streets, provides the desired protection on the ground floor by closing off the school with a continuous protective boundary. It is the support for the two upper levels, designed in a timber structure and occupied by the classrooms.