RHEINZINK designs a zinc-titanium roof like a metallic ribbon for the MECS in Lézignan

The building, on one level, has been entirely designed to offer everyone a living space to reconstruct psychologically while maintaining links with their original environment. Imagined like a metallic ribbon, the roof designed in zinc-titanium RHEINZINK, makes it easy to find your way from the surrounding neighborhoods to the educational center.

“In a very mineral region, the choice of a material such as zinc for the roof, associated with an exposed wooden frame, makes it possible to create a real signal filled with warmth and to offer the building the means to exist at alongside renowned contemporary architectures. " emphasizes the architect Marc Aupetitgendre.

Oriented around a central part, the building with an area of ​​926,8 m2 consists of two separate wings housing on one side the living space for children and on the other, the administrative and parent / child meetings. The interior, structured like a house - living room, kitchen, dining room, bedrooms, bathroom ... - has been designed so as to offer, through volumetric landmarks, safety and well-being to its inhabitants.

A surface area of ​​780 m2 of zinc-titanium prePATINA clear RHEINZINK designs the roof in the form of an accordion and with random folds. The combination of the materials of the roof and the frame brings a little warmth and highlights certain details of the building. True to zinc-titanium RHEINZINK Henri Gerkens roofer is delighted with the easy cutting and installation of modular material for this roof “In less than 3 weeks, for 4 people, we carried out the work in a traditional form but fragmented and stretched to create well-defined spaces. "

The Lézignan social children's home is part of the large-scale program launched by the city around this center and the construction of a gendarmerie and a medical center is underway.

Site identity sheet

• Project: Social children's home (MECS) Lézignan Corbières (11) - new construction
• Year: 2015
• Zinc-titanium surface: 780 m2 standing seam in clear RHEINZINK prePATINA zinc
• Client: Association of pupils in public education / PEP (11)
• Project management: Rayssac Agency - architects - urban planners (11)
• RHEINZINK zinc works: Entreprise Gerkens (11)