Life, death and rebirth are inevitable a quote said – such is the case with the building of the ‘Josephine Baker’ Group of Schools.

Dominique Coulon & Associés recently completed a school building in the area of La Courneuve, France.

The school building embodies itself into the complex context of ‘Cité des 4000’ district on a site ‘scarred’ by the painful memory of the demolition of the ‘Ravel’ and ‘Presov’ longitudinal blocks of flats.

The new school building is capable of opening up inside itself, creating a different landscape, an unusual place.

Read the original blog post here on Yatzer.