Lycée Michel Lucius

A pioneering school on the "Kuebebierg"

With looks like these, the Lycée Michel Lucius will play a pioneering role in construction of the district, which will obey the new direction being taken by the Kirchberg Fund (reducing use of the car, a city of short travel distances, circular approaches, innovative spatial concepts). It will also be an innovative school establishment in terms of use of renewable energy and water management.

Generally, the roof areas will be exploited to capture solar power, to recover rainwater and as green roofs/gardening.

To round off the urban charter they developed for the “Kuebebierg” district, the urban architect Alain Guez and the landscape architect Laurence Crémel have established the principles for articulating the school and its facilities with the urban and landscaping environment. These articulations will be encouraged by slicing through the built volumes punctuating the public space, and extending the green landscaping of the urban redevelopment plans for the “Laangfur-Kuebebierg” sections.

The parcels given over for the school and its facilities are divided into two, in order to retain the continuity of the existing pathway, which follows the topology and connects Boulevard Konrad Adenauer to the walk around the city limits.

The Fond Saint-Martin clearing will be developed as a park with facilities, which will serve as a linking element between the two plateaux and the Kiem district. The school and its facilities will be an integral part of the park, with their outdoor spaces being designed as an extension of the park.

The future Lycée Michel Lucius school will be able to accommodate 1,800 students, or 78 school classes, and it will employ some 240 teachers. The building programme envisages 46 classrooms, 40 specialist rooms and 8 workshops.

The reception area includes a large multi-purpose hall, available to residents of the district, as well as a large school restaurant with a kitchen for food preparation. 

The architectural design for the part forming the school itself comprises two volumes of different kinds:

The "park" levels group together most of the reception facilities, such as the multi-purpose hall, the restaurant and the cafeteria. They are covered by the "deck", an accessible roof terrace emerging as a new topography for the valley.

The "upper" levels comprise a building in a highly practical "M" shape, housing the administrative offices, the workshops and the classrooms.

The sports infrastructure comprises 4 large halls, 4 multi-functional gyms, and a swimming pool which will be shared with the Michel Lucius primary school. The swimming pool can also be used by the public, outside school hours. The architecture of the building housing the sports infrastructure is compact. The main entrance to this sports complex is located on the eastern façade, on the edge of the green corridor. A large staircase connects the three levels and all the facilities. The outdoor sports pitches are at ground level on the southern façade, thus helping to form a link with the primary school and the boarding school.