The Departmental Assembly of Côtes d'Armor decided to rebuild the RACINE college on its original site.
The program of the new college includes teaching facilities for 600 students, supplemented by a catering center and a kitchen, as well as an existing gymnasium center, which has been renovated.

Built in the early 1960s, the college buildings were a source of discomfort, were no longer functional or adapted to current pedagogies and no longer responded to current environmental challenges (presence of asbestos, very poor insulation, very energy intensive). The decision to rebuild the teaching building, the school canteen and to renovate the sports center is part of a high environmental quality approach in order to greatly limit the impact of the reconstruction.

Sustainable development approach of the project owner

Climate change is a reality that no one can ignore anymore. At the Côtes d'Armor Department, we have been working for several years, but have decided to go further. To a punitive vision, we prefer an incentive and unifying vision, because this fight can only be won collectively.

The result of the work of the “Environmental Responsibility” working group, the Departmental Council has drawn up a document that reveals the Department's ambition for the next 5 years in the field of energy transition. 5 axes have been chosen to be as transversal as possible, so that as many departmental policies as possible integrate our ambition for the climate:

- Strategic axis 1 - promote information

- Strategic axis 2 - work on uses

- Strategic axis 3 - accentuate the energy renovation of departmental buildings

- Strategic axis 4 - deploy renewable energies

- Strategic axis 5 - act on mobility

Architectural description

The new design is based on the compactness of the frame which makes it possible to bring together all the college students and
teachers around an interior street lit and shaded by a photovoltaic canopy. During the time of at noon, users cross the courtyard to reach the restaurant.

In general, the architectural bias asserts itself in a search for sobriety, see stripped down which carries a message of simplicity, solidity, rigor, durability away from fashions. It is a solid image, without fantasy that characterizes the establishment from the public domain, while on the courtyard side, the atmosphere is open, brighter in a green, even rural context.

Between April 2018 and July 2020, the new college was built in the heart of the site which was maintained in service. After a reorganization and a regrouping of the pupils in the north and west wings, the space available for the construction of the new premises was cleared. Finally, the courtyard was completed after moving to the new buildings, and delivered for the 1st quarter of 2021.