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A school in trees
In Nantes, the Claire Bretécher school embodies a new vision of the school in 2025. Imagined as a bird’s nest in the heart of the trees of the Doulon-Gohards ZAC, it is built of wood, with large openings onto a central courtyard planted with trees. David Abittan and Temaprod, visitezd the school. Watch the vidéo
Close to Ecuador, a construction site that feels good about itself
“Natural ventilation and local materials ensure occupant comfort in Guyana’s climate”.
Grands chantiers” feature on the bioclimatic high school in Saint Laurent du Maroni, in Le Moniteur, on the theme of adapting the living environment to climate change. Read the article.
The future Douvaine high school will blend into the landscape
“With its undulating lines, wood-clad facades and concrete and dry-stone base, the architecture of the future high school in Douvaine (Haute Savoie) is inspired by the surrounding mountains”.
An article published in Le Moniteur.
Visit to Jean Lolive middle school
On 15 May 2025, the CAUE 93 organised a visit to the Jean Lolive middle school in Pantin (93) for a group of 30 teachers as part of an ‘Artistic and Cultural Education’ course run by the Créteil education authority, focusing on the architecture of schools. The new Jean Lolive secondary school, due for completion in 2022, is the first major public facility in the Pantin station eco-neighbourhood.
Find out more about this project
Conférence in Blois
On 15 May 2025, Jean-Michel Buron will open the CAUE 41’s series of meetings in Blois on sustainable materials and comfort architecture with a talk on “sober architecture that enhances its environment”. The lecture will take place at 2.30pm at the École de la Nature et du Paysage (Blois).
Architectural visit
Visit the High school Lucie Aubrac in Courbevoie, on Saturday 5 April 2025, from 11am to 12.30pm, with Jean-Michel Buron, its architect. Organised by the town of Courbevoie. How did the agency come up with the idea for the Lycée Lucie Aubrac, a luminous building built around an internal street, which manages to offer vast spaces despite being built on a small plot of land?
Inauguration of the IFPS in Besançon
The Institut de Formation des Professionnels de Santé (IFPS) _ for higher education of health professionals _ at Besançon University Hospital, was inaugurated on 17 March 2025 in the presence of the Minister for Health, Catherine Vautrin. The IFPS is now called the Institut Paulette Guinchard, after the former Secretary of State for the Elderly, a woman of commitment and conviction in the service of care and health.
Zinc poetry
An article on the Vuache secondary school in Vulbens (74), in the January 2025 issue of Références, published by the CAUE 74. “This new building has a foundation, it is part of a heritage, a landscape, a history and practices, and that’s why we wanted it to anchor itself gently in the composition of the site”.
Read the article ( in french)
Inauguration of the François Peatrick school complex
18 December 2024: inauguration of the François Peatrick school complex in Le Plessis Robinson. It took two successive phases to transform this complex, which was built in the 1960s and had fallen into disrepair. The project offers 19 primary and nursery classes, eight extra, a courtyard planted with trees, a new refectory and a gymnasium. Two leisure centres, a crèche and an association centre will also be built on the site.
Global warming and school architecture
“Climate change is opening up a new chapter in school architecture”. Interview with Jean-Michel Buron, founder and director of Epicuria Architectes, who has become a master of school design. Read the interview (in French) on the Construction 21 website.
Conference at the Salon des Maires 2024
Join us on Thursday 21 November 2024 in the Risks and Adaptation of Territories Lab in Pavilion 3 of the Salon des Maires et des Collectivités Locales (Porte de Versailles) to discuss the advantages of wood as a material for meeting the social and societal challenges facing territories, including the vital need to create links between residents through wood or mixed wood construction or renovation. We are presenting : school Claire Bretécher in Nantes and high school Adeline Boutain à Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie. The conference takes place from 12:30 to 1:00 pm.
An architecture of light
Podcast in English: Jean-Michel Buron, architect and founder of Epicuria Architectes, grew up in Tunisia. A child of the Mediterranean, he draws inspiration from the architecture of Eastern cities in many of his projects. Two projects are explained in this podcast: the Lycée International Lucie Aubrac in Courbevoie (92) and the Institut Supérieur de l’Électronique et du Numérique in Caen (14) in France. Listen to the podcast (in english).
Podcast
The more constraints, the more solutions? Podcast produced by the town of Courbevoie (92) on the Lycée International Lucie Aubrac ‘s high school and its 5-storey internal street. Discover the podcast.
Film
A film produced by the Ile-de-France Region about the Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot secondary school in Neuilly-sur-Marne (93), due to open in September 2024, and for which we are delivering the first stage of a major restructuring-extension project to enhance the school’s multi-purpose facilities.. Watch the video.
Conference Batimat 2024
Jean-Michel Buron speaks with Sarah Laroussi, Director General of the CNDB on the set of bati-journal about “wood in schools”. Discover
School architecture as an educational tool
The architecture of educational establishments is proving to be a formidable educational vehicle for raising awareness of sustainable development and the environment through the values it displays. An article by Jean-Michel Buron on the Construction 21 website. Read the article in french.
Competition won
We won the bid to rebuild the Auguste Mailloux secondary school in Le Loroux-Bottereau (44). A real challenge for the region, this secondary school, which dates back to the 1970s, will be rebuilt on a neighbouring plot. The new school will be built of wood and stone, with a strong environmental focus, and will feature large landscaped areas. It will accommodate 840 pupils from 2027.
Foundation stone
On 21 May 2024, together with the Normandy region, the city of Caen and the ISEN Ouest teams and students, we laid the foundation stone for the future ISEN Ouest engineering school building. The new campus will open its doors at the start of the 2026 academic year to 600 engineering students.