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Crèche Binet by Béal & Blanckaert
A brightly striped facade of colour-coated windows, mirrors and coloured panels encases this nursery in north Paris (photos by Julien Lanoo).
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Designed by French architects Antoine Béal and Ludovic Blanckaert, the single-storey Crèche Binet conceals two large circular courtyards behind its exterior.
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Children’s living rooms wrap around the two courtyards, while a staggered row of timber-clad boxes house bedrooms.
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Staff rooms are located along the east side of the building, while corridors behind the south facade face a tree-lined public square.
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Architects Béal and Blanckaert are based in Lille, where they previously completed another educational building - click here to read about a zinc-clad teaching resources centre.
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This is also the second nursery we've published this week - see our earlier story about one with spotty concrete buttresses.
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Here's some more text from Béal & Blanckaert:
Crèche Binet
The new "Binet" Nursery makes up part of the "résidence de Nerval" garden.
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A rectangle form oriented from east to west between the 'Boulevard des Maréchaux' and the Parisian 'Périphérique'.
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The main architectural focus is the respect for the beautiful trees around the public walkway, and the creation of a new public equipment for the neighborhood.
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The project's conception is tied via merging with the ground that it is built on.
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The building's global trapesium consists of a series of pillars which embrace the interior gardens on the ground.
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The space created below this natural cover becomes a home for the children. Below this interspace, one ca find all the universes of a crib.
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Living quarters, gardens, open circulation spaces and protective open spaces.
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Via series of long window-walls, with transparent and colored windows, the protective functions of the project keep their link with its surroundings.
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The nursery forms both a merging and a metamorphose of its location.
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Adress: Mail Huchard, 75018 - Paris - France Architectes : Antoine Béal et Ludovic Blanckaert Collaborateurs: T.Foucray – D.Guiot
Client: Paris Habitat - Ville de Paris