Campus de Sciences Po

The Euro-American campus of Sciences-Po will occupy a 17th-century architectural ensemble, the former Collège des Jésuites in Reims, part of which is a registered Historic Monument.
The project, conducted in two phases and in occupied spaces, with the first phase delivered in 2015 (the second in September 2017), consists in creating teaching facilities for the Sciences-Po outpost in the existing buildings of this former convent. The complement to the architectural program, made up of two amphitheatres with 200 and 600 places, a cafeteria and a library in new buildings, is integrated into the historical site plan.

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A university such as Sciences-Po reinvents itself every day. Its image needs local anchoring, in the immaterial “heritage” of a place, a city, an era, but the facility itself must be flexible and consistent with the needs of the students.
This project demonstrates how Reichen et Robert & Associés and Pingat have succeeded in adapting the place and the project to generate technical and communicative synergies and innovations.
The existing spaces and the complementary new elements and functions form a unified and contemporary whole.
The techniques, the means of communication, the environmental approaches, the equipment, the spaces, the level of comfort – everything is designed to show consistency of the place with its function.
This balance in itself demonstrates the university’s capability to evolve in that it has found an efficient adaptation between the new and the existing.

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Delivery : 2017

Complete commission

Project Owner
City of Reims

Project Supervision
Reichen et Robert & Associés, agent
Supervising contractor: PINGAT A&I
Work site management: PINGAT
Design office, scheduling, construction management and coordination: TPFI
Heritage Architect: SOCREA
Acoustician: CIAL
Landscaping: Atelier Format Paysage
Museographer, scenographer: SCENE

Area
21,600 m² floor area
7,081 m² useable restructured area
4,528 m² useable area created

Project value
€34 M tax excluded

Perspectives
Kaupunki

Photographer
Adeline Bommart