Ground floor
First floor
Roof (garden)
Second floor

Condorcet Campus

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Location
Porte de la Chapelle, Paris, France
Year
2017
Client
EP Campus Condorcet - Epaurif
Team
Josep Lluís Mateo - mateoarquitectura
Landscape
D’ici Là
Installations Engineering and HQE label
EDEIS
Structural Engineering
E.V.P. (En Vertu des Possibles)
Façades
Ferres
Budget control
VPEAS
Acoustics
LAMOUREUX Acoustics
Site management
CICAD
Fire Protection
Casso & Associés
Signage
Rafa Mateo
Renders
RSI Studio

In the city periphery, faced with a sea of infrastructural lines (Périphérique, train, motorways, etc.), the building is situated in a non-place.
It is therefore an introverted building that constructs its own inner landscape, and, on top, on its roof, cultivates a new nature.

In terms of volume, it is the sum of a low building and courtyards: an intersecting of lines, like its neighbouring infrastructures.
Rising up from this base is a solid, dense, rather opaque volume: the library, depository of knowledge. This volume dialogues with the two housing blocks which, like a gateway, stand nearby.

As regards both constructive logic and appearance, it is designed with industrial architecture in mind. Prefabricated structure, rigidly assembled, and light-weight, vertical facings. Repetition and opacity.
A new knowledge factory in the periphery.

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