AIA LIFE DESIGNERS – Winner of the Child Brain Institute - Robert Debré

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AIA Life Designers wins the contract of the Children Brain Institute - Robert Debré design project. The creation of this excellent research, care and training institute, supported by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris（AP-HP）, Inserm, Université Paris Cité, CEA and Institut Pasteur, was announced by French President Emmanuel Macron at the mentale health government work conference in September 2021. This dedicated building on the site of the Robert Debré AP-HP hospital will open its doors in 2027.

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Our project is based on bioclimatic architecture, a refuge in a turbulent urban environment. The north side of the building is protected by a shell, kind of "mineral skin" that gives it its urban identity and encourages dialogue with the nearby ring road.

▲ Animated interior facade to inspire the imagination © AIA Life Designers

the entrance on the other side faces the the Robert Debré AP-HP hospital area and is designed to attenuate the stress inherent in any hospital visit. Inside the building, the pathway for children and their carers is cozy and smoothing. Our architects have imagined an interior universe fantastic, detached from the codes of healthcare architecture and designed to stimulate dreams in the bioclimatic atrium.

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Nature, at the heart of the program, is a vector of well-being for all users. The work and rest areas, as well as the paths lined with vegetation, guarantee caregivers and staff comfortable and pleasant working conditions, in a place that requires so much empathy.

As a teamwork project of AIA Life Designers group, this work was carried out by different professional teams from Paris, Lyon, Shanghai, Lorient and Nantes.

We are very proud and would like to thank the client and congratulate our teams!