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Joly&Loiret completed the renovation of a music and dance school in the city of Versailles, adapting the design to the surroundings, with white bricks and warm interiors.

The renovation and addition project by studio Joly&Loiret is located at the heart of a city block in a school playground in the city of Versailles. The new volume extends an existing school building up the slope of the passageway that leads onto the site and comprises circulation and reception spaces, dance studios and music rooms.

The project replaces a covered section of the Vauban school playground. The building’s volume extends the line of the existing walls of the Lully school building, flanking the entrance passageway at lower and upper ground floor levels. Following the slope of the path, it settles onto the incline of the school playground. The dance centre is spread over two floors. The reception is situated at the entrance to the dance centre. Its location allows for surveillance of the entrance lobby and the entrance to the dance centre.

The dance studios are very light and bright, sound is confined and light is diffused. Light enters through the roof light (screened from the sun), via the large windows to the east that give full views onto the trees in the playground, and through a horizontal clerestory window to the south situated above the mirror, illuminating the dancers and allowing them to see their reflections clearly. These dance spaces have a rectangular, almost square floor plan, but an asymmetric volume for better acoustics and to enable natural ventilation (the stack effect). The music rooms on the ground floor have been given a fairly neutral ambiance.

From the entrance and the reception desk, circulation spaces finished in timber (oiled 3-ply oak) and dark clay are treated as shared spaces: areas in the corridors have been widened to create convivial spaces. The textures are warm and soft, with ochre colours and pale timber. Students can wait for their classes in a dedicated space. To the west, a large window giving onto the exterior passage brings light into the two levels of the building and opens the building onto the town.

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  • 10 Rue Auguste Lançon, 75013 Paris, France
  • Joly&Loiret,