ENSTA

The architectural design of the ENSTA ParisTech school corresponds to the organisation of the interactions between the services and expresses the specificity of the differentiated typologies (collective services or teaching spaces), all grouped around a “Hub”, the atrium.
 
The atrium distributes all of the School’s activities through transparent passageways that reflect the interactions and exchanges of this community. Its generous size welcomes all the students and the holding of major events.

The new ENSTA ParisTech campus has taken over the Palaiseau site by integrating itself into the geometry of the Polytechnique’s structural axes while offering a new landscape identity at the heart of the site. We decided to build the school, the main building of ENSTA ParisTech, along the boulevard in order to create a vast landscaped park at the back.
 
This park is made up of large planted lawns which frame the new accommodation buildings, thus allowing the theme of a tree-lined campus to be developed. The “outdoor conviviality spaces” fit naturally into the design of the hilly park to encourage places of exchange and conviviality.

Several energy sources are combined to supply the entire project: low-temperature geothermal heating, domestic hot water production by solar panels and photovoltaic electricity.
 
Energy losses are controlled by external insulation that increases the building’s inertia (including green roofs) and a double-flow ventilation system.

In order to preserve the environment, the organisation of the landscape has taken into account the treatment of rainwater based on a system of five “vegetated” retention basins with regulated discharge of the stored rainwater into the river system.