Forecourt of Lycée Félix Le Dantec – LANNION (Côtes-d’Armor)
RetourCompletion year 2010
Contracting Authority Regional Council of Brittany
Mission Creating a forecourt in front of the secondary school and the new media library
Project Management Team Architects Delvaux/Tommy Martin (mandated agent, buildings), Landscape architects and designers Laure Planchais, Light designers Coup d’Eclat
Surface area 9,700 hectares
Budget €250,000 exc. VAT
Ratio €26 exc. VAT per m²
This forecourt is part of a strategy to display a street side profile featuring the renewal of the administrative building and of the new media library/multi-purpose venue intended for both the school and the town.
We chose an aesthetic approach that tells of an exotic journey through the travelling world of the famed Doctor Félix Le Dantec, and which takes advantage of the Lannion region’s very gentle micro-climate.
The project has turned the forecourt into a raised platform, an urban plaza suited to the welcoming of visitors to the school and the media library. Its configuration provokes an incentive to slow down, successfully meeting the demand for a “landscaped” area through a network of flowerbeds dotted with shrubs, shimmering perennials and local pink granite blockfield.
The area to the back of the school was refurbished into a clearly marked car park, in a bid to optimise the space.
The front of the school now features a kiss & ride/bus stop zone and provides a new land limit indicated by a discrete fence that blends in visually with the plantations.
Feedback (last visit in 2014)
- Thanks to the sheer bulk of perennials and fine growing conditions overall, the result was highly spectacular as early as summertime in the initial year of plantation.
- The reinforced asphalt, being too heavily spread on the road (managed by the Lannion municipality), has suffered some light wear and tear.
- The area appears to be well attended and popular among the students.