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Wooden Nursery Paris by Djuric Tardio architectes

The request for proposals issued by the municipal government of Paris was an opportunity to implement this system to build a 48-cradle nursery.

Modular and nomadic, the building fulfills the requirements for rehousing Parisian children deprived of their usual child care establishments undergoing works.

Thus, the building is designed to be disassembled, moved and reassembled. Inaugurated in the 6th arrondissement where it will remain for 2 years, thereafter the nursery will be relocated to the 13th arrondissement, in keeping with the specifications brief.

Site

The French Senate made available to the city of Paris an area of the Jardin du Luxembourg located close to the Rue Guynemer. The sloping, tree-lined alley, whose tree roots could not be damaged by the construction, lay above quarries located at a depth of 15m below, which threatened the stability of the ground and trees above. The temporary construction of the nursery provided the Senate with the opportunity to fill these dangerous underlying cavities.

Architectural approach

The Jardin du Luxembourg is an exceptional site. Therefore, the building had to take into account the constraint of a short-term existence and the requirement of a harmonious insertion. This high-performing and bio-sourced building was designed with the principle of reversibility.

It can be entirely reconfigured to be utilized for this program or others (emergency housing, offices, etc.), in order to serve new needs and future uses. The Luxembourg site will be identically returned to its original state in two years and the building will be erected elsewhere.

Construction system and materials

The design of the nursery is based on a primary dismountable structure inspired by a construction system of Jean Prouvé’s, enabling the manipulation of self-bearing modules. The assemblages are borrowed from traditional Japanese systems. The structural envelop is prefabricated in the workshop and the interior layout and utilities are also modular.

Location: 3 rue Guynemer Paris 6e (entrée Jardin du Luxembourg), France

Architect: Djuric Tardio Architectes

Project Team: Clara Hernande and Pauline Mariez, Henri Delion and Léa Morel (construction)

Structure: Bollinger + Grohmann

Economist: VPEAS

M&E Engineer: FACEA

Acoustics: AVEL Acoustique

Client: City of Paris – DFPE, department of the Family and early infancy

Owner: City of Paris

Program: Modular, nomadic, 48-cradle nursery made of wood

Surface: 525 m2

Cost: €1,880,000 (excl. VAT)

Delivery: August 2019

Photographs: Clément Guillaume, Courtesy of Metropolis

Wooden Nursery Paris by Djuric Tardio architectes

Details

  • 3 Rue Guynemer, 75006 Paris, France
  • Djuric Tardio Architectes