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Apprentice Formation Center Extension
Air Architecture | |
| location | Saint-Maur-des-Fossés |
| function | education, workshop |
| contributed by | Hacienda |
The extension of the Apprentice Formation Center in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is a compact and economic building. It is located next to the complex of the Chambre des Métiers of the Val-de-Marne Departement, near Paris. The raw yellow concrete façade gives a clear identity to the building. It comes down on the ground and goes back up against the previously existing building, creating an open-air, sunny and generous public space that links the old and the new. On the existing building, the concrete defines an extension of the cafeteria. In a game of inversion, the new building backs its concrete façade and is based on a complex steel structure. The long span (20m) of the plumbers workshop is assured with a full-height beam that frames the second floor. The triangulations of these beams give the diamond shape of the upper level windows and the inclination of the zinc.
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