Lycée Français de Vienne

Location: Liechtensteinstrasse 37A, 1090 Vienna

Client: AEFE Agence de l'Enseignement Français à l'Étranger, Paris France

Period: 12/2018 - 10/2019

Services Atelier Grell: design and all phases from general planning to completion

Landscape design: Idealice Landschaftsarchitektur ZT

Structural engineer: Timbatec Holzbauingenieure GmbH, Vienna, Austria

General Conctractor: Prameshuber & Partner GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Construction of a new porter's lodge, new forecourt design, improvement of security and reception area. The two school buses, which operate as shuttle buses for young children traveling twice daily between the Lycée and the kindergarten in Grinzing, are now able to turn within the delivery zone of Studio Molière and no longer need to pass through the school park.

The park is newly zoned through the use of internal, delicate, and staggered enclosures, creating clearly defined areas: a new recess area for students, a semi-public waiting zone for parents in the main area, and a centrally positioned gatehouse. The gatehouse forms the organizational core of the site, overseeing all zones and controlling access to the premises.