The most often attached to hospitals they lack visibility

Two weeks ago, the nursing students argued for greater recognition of their level of education: three years of alternating training posted to height of a bac 2, evidence of the lean credit given to learning and vocation. In the heart of the system of education, training in nursing (Ifsi) courses and validate the curriculum. The most often attached to hospitals, they lack visibility. Implemented this year, inaugurated by the Minister of health Xavier Bertrand, the CFSI of Abbeville, in the sum, reflects a renewed attention and a big public recognition orchestrated by architecture.

Parachuted in the pavilions, the new Institute reports by its purity of line and its clinical whiteness. So, it does not style in this street of subdivisions which it adopts low profile and the fringe of green. Designers have become modern, the Charles seems a Richard Neutra, these prototypes in Los Angeles houses expanded of Pierre Koenig study model Pascale Guédot, its architect, do not denies this relationship which gives the building an aspect more domestic public, in line with its function as home port. Centre courses, the Institute is a rallying place, healing and life "a total of 265 students trainees, all promotions combined, including a stable rate of 12 of men", says Marie-Françoise Hanon, Director of the care of the establishment. Largely sized and elegantly furnished, documentary centre, computer room and cafeteria dubbed a veranda are hospital and are a "mother house" of the Institute for nursing apprentices.

Modern framed

Square plan, the building is contained between a loose slab of soil and ground cover cut patios. "From the street, the perception ignores the basement held by the archives of hospital and the floor of the classroom on the back", says Pascale Guédot. The building is consistent to the flat country and its vast skies trapped by the roof above the patios. Justified modern and neat dress refer to vocation, the recoil of a lawn marking the distance from the street.

Thus circumscribed, the Institute is organised around a 180-seat theatre, space major program of 2.500 m2 on below - ground, a cost of 4.2 million. Traffic that makes the tour loop all and draw sequences varied based on the premises on the sides: Gallery glass on the forecourt of entry to the East, between patio and amphitheatre South corridor to the West and crossing to the North, hall limits wing that superimposed offices, meeting rooms and of course on the floor. This organization is expressed with facades doubled external extensions in relation to the sheltered functions: veranda of the scene of life on the street on the South front, propylaeum of the forecourt to the East, openings one-storey rooms to the North. These thresholds or filters that ensure the porosity of the enclosure and give the building its radiation.

Inspired by the famous California houses, the construction proceeds by plans of different industrial materials. Adaptation to the soil is an another trait of character, with construction on slab on a plateau. The metal rail which belt draws the right-of-way and takes off the construction in the slope of the land. Setting printing is reinforced by the metal shutters which slide such cursors along the verandah, protecting Sun's documentation and the cafeteria. "All the panels to clothe the walls and the walls are carved on the total height, both inside and outside, explained Pascale Guédot, and declined in a narrow range of materials, glass and modules siding steel or nids-d'abeilles of aluminum in the faces." The north façade enhanced by the floor draws a checkerboard of steel and glass with fixed chassis and opening.

Treatment by alternate plans highlights domestic volumes to a height of 3.60 metres and in the amphitheatre which volume encroaches on the basement. The accuracy of the line betrays the metal construction developed around this central volume, "built in reinforced concrete, and the northern flank", says the architect. The material is visible in places, in the footprint of the shuttering boards. The belt of tubular poles releases of large glass surfaces. The space of the hall and the volume of the amphitheatre are wearing signs have in Sycamore integrating doors or acoustic treatment. Other decorative plans enhance composition: curtain bamboo in the documentation and stainless steel fabric around the stairs of the hall. Compatible with the integrated heating, soils are alternating clear stone and resin cream or grey in colour. Exterior decking from the veranda and the forecourt are wood etc. These materials and assorted finishes deliver soothing atmosphere at the centre of studies and life attended alternating with internship sites.