The design studio of the fifth semester was directed towards an important study of architectural detail in order to understand the material connections and how to draw them correctly. The project site is situated in Avenue Marie Reynoard, in Grenoble. It is a 60 meters wide street almost untapped. It was decided to reorganize the traffic flow, in order to create some plots to build an architectural school campus.

This project hosts the construction workshop, used by the architectural students in order to receive practical exercises about construction.

The light structure is organized in a post-beam structure which carries the roof held by a framework network. Below that first structure, four massive volumes will organize the interior spaces. The two elements work independently from each other. The open area in the center allows students to build real scale models.

In order to preserve the private space, a metallic fence divides the project with the public spaces.

Cheap and industrial materials are employed in the project to reflect the primary use of the building. The buildings are massive elements, the entrances are the only openings on the walls. The natural light comes from the skylights. Rammed earth blocks are a local material and heritage. This material is studied in the Architecture school of Grenoble.

The blue outline style was a studio constraint in order to have an homogeneous between all the projects look during the final presentation.