The 'Wood Hall' function is to house all training activities in the timber industry (BEP, Bac Pro and BTS carpentry, building layout and wood) High School Gaudier Brzeska. This new building becomes for the establishment a showcase of its know-how as a "Lycée des métiers", gives students a culture of sustainable development and affirms the future of woodworking in buildings with high environmental quality. The project combines functionality, rationality with an architectural part allowing the implementation of a constructive system developed while being repetitive.

The project was designed and implemented in accordance with the High Environmental Quality (HQE) approach.

Bio-based materials used: Glue-laminated wood, wood fiber, solid wood, natural linoleum, cellulose wadding, sheep wool

Sustainable development approach of the project owner

The materials used will be rough but presenting a quality of appearance. The project is conceived and realized respecting the High Environmental Quality approach.

Architectural description

The division of the building into three volumes makes it possible to respect the climatic and acoustic zonings and to efficiently organize the flow of people and materials: - Volume 1 - Reception and study facilities. Included here are the entrance, the editing and exhibition area, the teachers' rooms and the two-level classrooms. The independent structure of the partitioning makes it possible to change the organization according to the needs - Volume 2 - Rooms of comfort like volume of transition: Cloakrooms and toilets. This transition space is the functional part that groups together the commodities and health flows. The roof terrace is equipped with zenithal skydome openings to naturally light corridors, locker rooms and bathrooms. This volume is entirely made of concrete. - Volume 3 - Production hall: Individual and production work space, machine hall. The 40m wide and 71m wide production hall, based on a 14m grid, makes it possible to change the organization according to future educational needs. All areas of the wood construction sector, including the outdoor platform, are staged and visible "in the window" from Avenue Denis PAPIN. The two sides of the sheds roof are inserted in the triangulations of the beams, in order to create a structural "tablecloth" in which glass strips are also integrated. - Modular spaces of the workshop with wood frame partitions, posts with weft 14 mx 14 m Project incorporating many techniques for the use of wood labeled PEFC, FSC (structure, façade, insulation, partition): - Gray stained wood cladding dark to anticipate graying and 4 other types of untreated larch cladding. - Joinery mixed aluminum / wood for classrooms (including aluminum exterior) and aluminum joinery for workshops. - Main wall insulation: cellulose wadding and sheep wool for classrooms. - Environmentally friendly NF paint, Ecolabel CE, - Soft linoleum floor in classrooms and quartz concrete for corridors and workshops The bracing of the wood structure as well as the cutting of the acoustic, thermal and fire zones of the hall are ensured by a hard core made of reinforced concrete integrating the technical premises "central vacuum & waste." The facades are made of wood frame, carried by the columns in frontage and partially by the concrete structure. The finishing of the current facades is made of larch cladding in vertical overlap. The finish of the street façade (north-west) is composed of 3-ply panels, covered with larch blades spaced 12 cm apart to produce an effect of light and vibration.