Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior

Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot

CAMONDO MEDITERRANNEE SCHOOL INTERIOR

Emilieu Studio

ARCHITECTS
Emilieu Studio

MANUFACTURERS
Howe, Snef, Viriot - Haubout

DECORATIVE PAINTING
Pierre Yves Morel

EOODWORK
D.S.F Crew

PHOTOGRAPHS
Antoine Huot

AREA
2000 m²

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Toulon, France

CATEGORY
Schools, Educational Interiors

Being given the opportunity by the product design and interior architecture school Ecole Camondo Méditerrannée to design its entire interior design and architecture, Emilieu Studio took the challenge to build a learning space where pedagogy and ecology are not only companions to one another, but also stem from one another.

Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot
Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot

The key to this new way of teaching space design is to embody pedagogy in a practical area, instead of abstractions and generalizations.

The choice was made to root the school in its Mediterranean territory and embrace the local interior/exterior dichotomy by creating a mobile school. The furniture stems from a custom standard, the trolley, creating a fully interoperable and transportable system for modulating any piece of furniture the students would need.

Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot
Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot

The combinable system of a flat surface, vertical surface, seat, is made out of 100% reused and outdoor-proof material (marine plywood and sails), enabling any outdoor project and the exploration of local crafts.

The school’s interior is a scale one playground, enabling exploration on all axes, like the technical grid on the ceilings of both 1000 m² floors; or the entirely modular furniture. Every design choice becomes a learning surface so that the school becomes a landscape of exploration.

Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot
Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot

Ecology being a situated science, 2.4 m x 2.4 m detailed maps of various scaling (from neighboring territory to Mediterranean scale) ornate the interior and are fully writable for better collaboration. There is no Camondo sign at the entrance, all the eyes can see, is the map.

The map, the territory, is the school. The school is as much a matrix of multiple potentialities as it is a product of its environment. Both deposits of raw reused material (maritime plywood and sails) come from local shipyards and the surfaces are enhanced by bio-based inlays, like a black cork.

Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot
Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot

The materials are hence fully reused, but also fully reusable. Pushing forward a manifest for ecological pedagogy, Emilieu Studio dared to rehabilitate faux. One of the innovative challenges was to come out with rehabilitation techniques for enhancing reused material.

The choice was made to paint a series of large modular pieces of furniture with trompe l’oeil of rare, rich, and elegant minerals of the region. This avoids the extraction of rare materials and creates a learning space displaying a scale 1 library of minerals.

Camondo Mediterrannee School Interior
© Antoine Huot

Far from pure provocation, Emilieu Studio refuses any concession with eco-responsibility and goes back to the fundamentals of ecology and pedagogy: widening the perspectives and innovating.Both deposits of raw reused material (maritime plywood and sails) come from local shipyards and the surfaces are enhanced by bio-based inlays, like a black cork.


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