Renens School

Like a green archipelago, the project reinterprets the site as an ocean of greenery that brings together new and old buildings. It extends the spatial texture of Renens, composed of blocks and fluid vegetation between the built volumes. The buildings are gathered around a central courtyard, adopting the morphology of a village where students spend their days. The existing listed school is renovated and redefined as the public façade facing the city. In the plot’s interior, four smaller volumes are clad in wooden shingles of different colours. This, added to the typological specify of each figure  – U – L – T – B – defines a family proud of the diversity of its members.

Client: Ville de Renens; Location: Renens, VD; Year: 2022; Team: Fanny Noël, Diogo Lopes, Studiolo, Adr; Images: Nora Walter