New wooden school facility for the municipality of Marly

The municipality of Marly has organized an architectural competition in May 2019. The best project entitled "La Toile " was elaborated by the consortium Ruffieux-Chehab Architectes SA & Tekhne SA. They convinced the jury with three buildings with simple geometries. Each building contains a specific program: Elementary school, kindergarten with after-school care and sports hall.

The construction is planned as a load-bearing wooden structure, based on a modular grid. This construction enables rational prefabrication and a short construction phase. The structure, sound insulation and lighting together create a warm and quiet a warm and calm atmosphere, perfect for everyday school life.

The choice of materials Wood is the logical answer to the municipality's goal of constructing a Minergie-P-ECO building. building. Today, modern municipalities rely on wood as a sustainable building sustainable building material. In addition, there is enough wood growing in Switzerland to build the to build the school buildings from Swiss wood. In our forests, the wood required for the Marly school grows in our forests in less than an hour.

Timbatec congratulates the Ruffieux-Chehab Architectes SA & Tekhne SA on their successful design and looks forward to a pleasant a pleasant collaboration. The construction phase is expected to begin in June 2021, and from the summer of 2023 the students of the municipality of Marly will be able to move into the new move into the new school building.