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Crèche Rue Pierre Budinby ECDM

French architects ECDM have completed a nursery in Paris with rippling concrete walls (+slideshow).

The billowing curves of the facade were created using a series of prefabricated panels,which wrap around three sides of the Crèche Rue Pierre Budin but are only interrupted bywindows on one elevation.

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 A central courtyard is located at the heart of the two-storey building, surrounded by nurseryrooms that accommodate up to 66 children.

 A tree-like metal umbrella shades this courtyard and can be seen hovering above therooftop from the street.

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parameter), forbids any common denominator, any possibility of creating a homogeneouscomposition.

The day-nursery is thus an attempt, for a tiny building of public utility, to exist in anunfavorable relationship in the shade of a twelve story construction which takes light,overhangs and crushes everything.

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The program of the day-nursery introduces a small size, a small scale. If the volume comesfrom the requirements of the project concerning surfaces and scale, the writing of thebuilding results from its specificity. The day-nursery is a horizontal. Protective andintroverted, it occupies the ground, interacts with the outside spaces. Developed on twolevels, it is organized to get the maximum of light and sunshine, and to by-pass the shadeof the giant nearby building.

The project mixes the outside and internal spaces, organizes around a walk the 2 levels ina buckle of small paths and terraces, altering green and mineral areas. From therequirements of the program, it results a monolithic and protective facade. The building is inprefabricated concrete, long-lasting and resistant to the torments of the urban life. The

surrounding wall is drilled by translucent and colored windows. These windows havevarious heights, for a place thought as much for the children than¬¬ for the adults, theparents or the staff.

The housing part is treated as entity. The matter is to propose an autonomous writing to anadditional element, both complementary and exterior to the program of the nursery itself, to

propose to the future inhabitant a living environment desynchronized from his workplace.

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This volume lays on the nursery, slightly out of the building line, in order to give a specificurban writing to this residential space.

The project is a setting of a living place, with its specificities, its needs and also its poeticdimension, the goal is to propose for this tiny program a frame of living that generates asmuch an emotion with the future occupants (children, parents, staff) than the localresidents.

Program: Day Nursery for 66 children and 1 service apartmentClient: Ville de Paris Architect: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec architectes (ECDM)Engineering: C&E ingenierie, Cotracoop (mandataire du groupement d’entreprises), BonnaSabla et Il Cantiere, LafranqueLocation: 15 Rue Pierre Budin, PARIS XVIIISite area: 875 m² SHON / 1937 m² SHOB

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Cost: 3.1 M€ HTFinished: 2012Photographers: Luc Boegly, Benoît Fougeirol