Moveable furnishings crafted from outdated ship sails and plywood offcuts seem all through the École Camondo Méditerranée design college in Toulon with interiors by French apply Emilieu Studio.
The southerly outpost of Paris’s École Camondo is about on the coast of the French Riviera and encompasses a pared-back open-plan inside meant to mirror “how design and sustainability intersect”.
Its sparse 2,000-square-metre flooring plan is interrupted by a collection of boxy storage models the place college students maintain all their tools.
Every one is fabricated from marine plywood offcuts that Emilieu Studio present in a close-by manufacturing unit, choosing the fabric for its light-weight, hardwearing and waterproof qualities.
Ornamental artist Pierre-Yves Morel was enlisted to color the surfaces of the models to resemble several types of marble and rock which can be native to Toulon.
“We had two difficulties with adornment: aesthetics couldn’t come throughout performance and we needed to showcase the great uncooked supplies of Provence with out extraction,” defined the studio. “Our solely room for manoeuvre was floor, so we dared to rehabilitate fake.”
In any other case, the decor was saved to a minimal save for just a few blown-up maps of Toulon that the studio mounted on partitions and moveable partitions.
“They permit a greater understanding of the territory and encourage collaborative tasks by being totally annotatable and magnetic,” Emilieu Studio defined.
Marine plywood was additionally used to create a number of wheeled plinths that, with some extensions, might be reworked into cell trolleys, whiteboards or work tables.
The plinths additionally type the premise of the varsity’s modular sofas, that are completed with chunky cushions upholstered in outdated boat sails from the harbour in close by Marseille. These might be eliminated and stacked to create seating in different pockets of the room.
The one mounted parts of the varsity’s inside are the chrome steel models that make up the kitchen space, as these needed to be linked to the constructing’s plumbing system.
There’s additionally a colour-coded bin station with built-in weighing scales in order that college students can handle their waste output and organise it to be used in future tasks.
Extra conventional desks with shiny white counter tops had been additionally dotted across the area.
Ecole Camondo Méditerranée is certainly one of 5 tasks shortlisted within the civic and cultural inside class of the 2022 Dezeen Awards.
Different tasks within the working embody the world’s first multi-storey skatepark in Folkestone and Stanbridge Mill Library by Crawshaw Architects, which occupies a former cow shed.
The images is by Antoine Huot.
