Barthelemy Durand Psychiatric Hospital, Sainte-Geneviève des-Bois

Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

Designed within an unspoilt landscape, the five new units of the psychiatric hospital are arranged around a central forecourt, an important area for circulation and interaction, forming a connection with the town, like a village square.

A place for outdoor life, transition and passage, it provides an approach that is diametrically opposed to confinement or segregation.

Location

Route de Longpont, 91 700 Sainte-Geneviève des-Bois

Client

Etablissement Public de Santé Barthelemy Durand

Project cost (ex.tax)

€ 18.7 million (2013 value)

Area

9 400 sq.m.

Scope of services

Design and build

Competition

2010

Completion

2013

Brief

Five 25-bed psychiatric units with shared activity and logistics areas

Themes

Integrated and open into the landscape, accommodation and movement, centralised posts for carers

Materials

timber and coloured render

Project leader

Eiffage Idf

Architect

Pargade

Engineering consultant

Betom

Quantity surveyor

Voxoa

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