Sujets Objets

EXTENSION OF THE BELVÉDÈRE SCHOOL . GENEVA

SUJETS OBJETS . renders: © Pan Hu

Intervening on an existing building requires particular attention in order to ensure architectural continuity between the old and the new, by taking into account, the shape, the volume, the location, the materiality, as well as the logic of the interior typology. These parameters are analyzed and applied to propose an extension project that respects the built and natural heritage of the site (built in the early 1970s by the Geneva architect Paul Waltenspühl), while assuming a new construction in a contemporary architectural language.

The project responds to the constraints in a simple manner. The form of the extension, pragmatic and economical, extends the existing construction in an organic way. Thus, the new volumetry
is fragmented into two parts and completes the existing volumes in a continuity and without hierarchy. The location of the project extends the existing school to ensure not only a fluid and uninterrupted circulation logic, but also a concentration of the construction in order to preserve the surrounding natural context as much as possible. As a result, the two buildings touch at a strategic point, becoming the new heart of the ensemble.
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Architects: SUJETS OBJETS / instagram: sujets.objets
Engeneers: MDB ingénieurs civils