Jan 8, 2018

Département d'Études Francophones (D.E.F.) / Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL)

Teaching Lab building is now Département d'Études Francophones (D.E.F.). This is a two-story L-shaped building, long north and south. Classrooms are arranged along corridors on the east and north. Four tiered lecture halls jut out to the west. The rooms are connected by a corridor an inside windows which admit light and breezes throughout.

View from the east. The louver window of the classrooms are made of wood.


View from the south. Classrooms have closely pitched sawtooth roofs. Soft natural light enters from high north-facing windows.

The first floor is  connected by elevated walkway to central building and library.


Fixed glass at eye level frames a view of the garden.

Lecture halls roofs have hexagonal ducts like the central building. Brick wall formed he outer layer of the double wall.

Lecture halls are supported by pilotis that resemble animal legs.

View of classrooms on the ground floor from the piloti space.

Tiered lecture hall on the west.

Glass jalousie window can be opened to allow wind to pass through.

Tiered lecture hall on the first floor.

Interior of the tiered lecture hall on the west.

At the west of the long corridor is an openwork claustra of hexagonal ventilation blocks, which shut out rain but admit fresh air and fill the space with soft light.


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