At the start of a fresh schoolhouse class , uncomplicated school teachers make pilgrimage to art and school supply depot , searching for brightly colored poster and bulletin plank decorations that will make their otherwise drab , standard - result classrooms into a more piquant learning environment . Teachers at the Niki - de - Saint - Phalle school in the Saint - Denis suburb of Paris , however , wo n’t have to worry about that kind of thing ; their entire encyclopedism surroundings has been professionally plan by architect Paul le Quernec into a multi - hue , modernist educational paradise .
The schooling in Saint - Denis is a double - purpose place , used to teach both preschool and elemental - older pupil . Le Quernec drew inspiration from the left and right hemispheres of the mind to contrive the two wing , conclude that children of unlike long time learn in unlike way . For the new fry , le Quernec project room with sonant curves in varying subtlety of orange , impart a gradualness of approach while hoping to stimulate creative cerebration with the ardent , bright hue . Older children , whose education require more structure , sit down to desks in more angular blank , painted green to surrogate concentration . The school ’s outside façade effectively meld the two colouring schemes , cleverly constructed from painted wood in such a room that the building is likely orange from some slant and unripe from others , depending on where the watcher is standing .
Book lovers willespecially appreciatele Quernec ’s design for the children ’s library , painted in soothe livid with lovesome light and mess of benches and igloo - work interpretation nooks . Rose - hued corridors lead youngster through the airy entrance dormitory to the school ’s two playgrounds , and light source come from a combination of whimsically shaped drift lamp and the sun percolate in through enceinte transparent doors and window . Even the flack extinguisher has its own design - designed blank space : in a stark white-hot hall , a bright violent nook shaped like a flaming denotes where one can find the necessary fire safety machine equipment .
Despite the calculated logic evident in every particular of the Niki - de - Saint - Phalle school , le Quernec admits that his logical thinking is based less on heavy science andmore on an artistic esthesia : “ My answer will be consider as very ostentatious or very irresponsible , but the truth is that I draw these spaces with my suspicion and my childhood memory . ” It is a style that carries through to his other designs for school buildings , evident in the enormous open reading quad of anursery school libraryin Illkirch , the quirky cafeteria chairs in anelementary school in Briarresand the multicolor polka - dottedexterior of a schoolin Montpon .
Le Quernec ’s conceptual architecture does n’t stop there . A glasshouse in Sarreguemines , designed in collaboration with architect Michel Grasso , bears no small resemblance toa cellphone of the body . The nursery itself is the nucleus , enwrap by gardens representing the cytol and a surrounding wall as the cellular phone membrane . The red - and - whitened incoming is explicitly intend to be “ vaginal , ” with the building ’s general curves and non - linearity meant to stir a sense of uterine comfort in both young children and their parents . Though the excogitation itself may be pernicious , le Quernec ’s nod to his intake are not . If wall could lecture , le Quernec ’s school construction would have plenty to say .
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