CONSTRUCTION OF A GENERAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL FOR 900 STUDENTS

Construction of a general education high school for 900 students, with 6,036 m² of usable floor area, including a cafeteria, six staff housing units, and a multi-sport gymnasium with 1,534 m² of usable floor area located outside the high school complex in the Châteaurenard sports field.

• Project owner : AREA PACA
• Project manager : MARCIANO ARCHITECTURE and José MORALES
• Methods design office : LOGIK
• Structural design office : INGENIERIE 84
• Duration of work : 15 months
• Energy performance : RT 2012 (French thermal regulation standards)
• Labels and certifications : Low Nuisance Worksite / Mediterranean Sustainable Building (BDM Bronze certification)
• Prizes and awards : Winning project in the 2020-2021 Technal Aluminium Architecture Awards

CONSTRUCTION METHOD

• • Buildings laid on shallow foundations
• • Walls created with cast-in-place concrete
• • Floors made of precast slabs + compression slab
• • Precast facade columns
• • All visible concrete is low carbon
• • Gymnasium roof support beams in pre-stressed concrete

SPECIFIC TECHNICAL FEATURES

• • Low-carbon concrete
• • Gymnasium built with very high walls (11 meters)
• • Tree trunk-like columns in concrete (courtyard supports)
• • 29.5 ml prestressed beams
• • Patterned concrete
• • Note : the aluminum exterior joinery work package (€1,500,000) was carried out by own production teams

KEY WORKSITE FIGURES

• Earthworks : 8,000 m3
• Usable floor area : 6,036 m² + 6 staff housing units + a 1,534 m² gym
• Formwork : 65,000 m²
• Concrete : 10,500 m3
• Steel : 600 metric tons
• Integration hours : 10,100
• Average workforce on site : 50 workers, 3 site managers