Competition for the new construction of the Plaisance-du-Touch College
Competition for the new construction of the Plaisance-du-Touch College

Competition for the new construction of the Plaisance-du-Touch College

The competition has been announced for the new College of Plaisance-du-Touch, a small town in the southwest of France near Toulouse, the college institution asks to focus on finding a balance between the construction and preservation of natural areas

A project to preserve high environmental quality and biodiversity

The project by ppa architectures for the College of Plaisance-du-Touch aims to address the ecological issues of the natural areas in question and the density of the built environment. The site boasts a high environmental quality, which the architects aim to preserve by designing the new building in a triangular area delimited by ditches, within which biodiversity issues are minimized

Competition for the new construction of the Plaisance-du-Touch College

Two facades, two panoramas

As in other architectural projects by ppa, the result of the design is an attention to the context that, in the competition for the College of Plaisance-du-Touch translates into combining architectural and environmental elements in order to have an intimate facade of the building facing the open landscape of the valley. An urban eye-catcher, composed of the college square and its south facade, opposes the U-shaped rear facade that opens onto the agricultural plateau of La Ménude

Competition for the new construction of the Plaisance-du-Touch College

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