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Heudebouville, France
Architects: HEMAA Architectes
Client: City of Heudebouville
Landscape Architects: HEMAA
Design team: Hesters Oyon
Photographer: Sergio Grazia
In a remarkable site whose backdrop is the hillsides of the Seine Valley, this new school is attached to the Norman village of Heudebouville.
From the history of the place, the school borrows materials and morphology: the wood of the half-timbered houses of the city center for the glazed frames and the framework; the slate of the bell tower and the town hall to clad and protect the facades and the roof. The morphology of the houses and farm buildings on the site is reinterpreted, giving rise to contemporary longères (narrow dwelling, developing along the axis of its peak, typical of Normandy)
The geography of the site orders the implantation of the work, the houses inserted according to the contours of the land and respect the natural soil. These guidelines delimit the playgrounds, draw orchards, and become valleys collecting rainwater from the entire site to feed a landscaped basin below.
