Grenoble Campus

Our augmented approach to architecture has allowed us to:

• Build a technical project and meet all university requirements by leveraging the best resources in construction engineering.
• Respect the environment through a sustainable development approach, both by integrating into a high-quality real estate setting and aiming for energy efficiency.
• Design projects of high urban and architectural quality that create an essential campus with a modern, simple, and enduring image.

Our architectural vocabulary is rooted in the foundations of modern architecture:

• A design on stilts to create transparency and views of nature and the surrounding landscape.
• An architectural concept without artifices, where form follows function, ensuring comfort and efficiency.

A sober and elegant bioclimatic architecture

The buildings follow the orthogonal grid of the campus and adopt a unified volumetry. EESS, DROIT 2, and BSHM are simple parallelepipeds on a transparent base, clad in raw and noble materials: natural cement for EESS and DROIT 2, terracotta for BSHM. EST, dedicated to performing arts, stands out with its elegant finishes: raw concrete, polished mirror stainless steel, and micro-perforated panels. Openings are designed to optimize bioclimatic performance, with a North-South orientation and solar protections ensuring summer comfort.

A beneficial connection with nature

Each building is positioned with a reduced footprint and a carefully treated base, respectful of existing vegetation. EESS and DROIT 2 integrate into a sculpture park, their refined architecture offering a discreet presence that enhances the landscape. The transparency of the ground floors creates visual porosity and continuity of views.

EESS and BSHM are organized around gardens extending the halls, placing nature at the heart of the project and ensuring a green immersion between interior and exterior. EST, meanwhile, establishes a unique dialogue with its surroundings through a large mirrored façade, set like a contemporary sculpture in the landscaped park.

The building serves as an architectural landmark on the campus. The cultural space is a key feature, highly visible from the central Diderot axis, both when approaching from the south and from the north.

The hall is equipped to accommodate 150 people in tiered seating. The first two rows are in a “pit” configuration, creating the effect of an elevated stage.

From the third row onward, seats are arranged on a telescopic grandstand.

Visual comfort is perfectly calibrated with no visual obstructions thanks to an appropriately adjusted slope.

The pit can be easily closed using a system of platforms on beams that are easy to handle. Once the telescopic seating is folded away, the hall becomes completely flat for various artistic events (performances involving audience interaction, graphic arts combined with musical expression).

Thus, the stage platform can be repositioned in alternative configurations, for example, at the center of the space.

The stage, measuring 10 meters wide by 8 meters deep, accommodates a choir, an amplified music group, or a theater troupe. The wings on stage left and right are functional and allow concealed access to the stage.