"French architecture studio Coldefy, in collaboration with Relief Architecture, has completed the 650-pupil Robert Badinter Secondary School, the first timber-framed school in northern France. The school is located on a former railyard site, adjacent to the city's train station and a ten-minute walk from the town centre. The design and location of the new school is part of an urban renewal project that seeks to create a consolidated public transportation hub complemented by lively civic amenities."
"The school is located on a former railyard site, adjacent to the city's train station and a ten-minute walk from the town centre. The design and location of the new school is part of an urban renewal project that seeks to create a consolidated public transportation hub complemented by lively civic amenities. Located on the site of the city's Vauban fortifications moat, the site also contained catiches subterranean chalk quarries which had to be filled in to stabilise the ground prior to construction."
Coldefy, in collaboration with Relief Architecture, completed the 650-pupil Robert Badinter Secondary School as the first timber-framed school in northern France. The school occupies a former railyard adjacent to the city's train station and is a ten-minute walk from the town centre. The project forms part of an urban renewal scheme aiming to consolidate a public transportation hub and introduce lively civic amenities. The site sits on the former Vauban fortifications moat and contained underground chalk quarries that were filled to stabilise the ground prior to construction. The building combines timber construction with site remediation within urban regeneration.
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