Herseaux
Primary and Elementary School
APractice architecture
The project was a contest of an Elementary and Primary school for 230 children in a city near Brussels.
It was the main contest of my internship there; the goal was not only to design a school in the village of Herseaux, but to define a new prototype of school for all the new schools in the province.
Five agencies were shortlisted after a first selection.
The prototype had to be thought for maximum pre-production of the elements to shorten construction time. The concept was to pre-fabricate walls and facades that would contain the structure, technics and insulation, and only had to be assembled on site, allowing a dry construction.
The result of the research was promising and was shown with an stacked axonometric view of a typical school floor.
My work was first to design a scaled organization chart to determine the differents connections in the project. I then worked on the research for the prototype and how to assemble pre-produced volumes and partitions from the extension of a few classes only to an whole newbuilt school. Finding a good pattern for Herseaux’s school would allow to repeat it elsewhere. I also worked on the research model and on the final detailed model.
Project Type : Contest (awarded)
The graphic documents are not of my making and are property of APractice Architecture. They are shown to help understanding the project.
The graphic documents are not of my making and are property of APractice Architecture. They are shown to help understanding of the project.