Louise Michel College, Epinay-sur-Seine, France, 2008 [Project]

Architect: Mikou Design Studio
Selma Mikou, Salwa Mikou, Cécile Jalby, Iskra Pencheva, Isabelle Hölscher
Client: Région IDF
Programme: renovation and extension of a school, units for general scientific, artistic and technological education, cafeteria, library, five teachers' residence
Budget: 11.264 M €
Renovated surface: 3 000 m2
Extended surface: 4 032 m2
Location: Epinay sur Seine
Date: competition 2008

Louise Michel College, Epinay-sur-Seine, France, 2008

The college is embedded with softness and sensuality into the urban landscape. The access is concave, comforting yet dynamic and developed from the street by offering variations of light and reflections. The stainless steel frontage is covered with a lattice of transparent sinusoidal tilted plates with an inclusion of red copper protecting the facade from the sun. The ensemble is like a landscape of vertical folded cupolas.