15.047 | School building ‘A la Croiseé des Chemins’

The vertical structure of the nursery school (312 pupils), a primary school (576 pupils) is composed of loadbearing façade walls, and columns for the interior of the buildings. Load bearing masonry replaces reinforced concrete at the top levels of the building where the magnitude of the load permits it. Glued laminated timber is used for the structure of the sports hall to create constant cross section, variable geometry beams, posed on columns