sabato 25 giugno 2011

Students at work






Students at work while are preparing some posters and video on the French project during the Open Days at school

venerdì 27 maggio 2011

Matteo's diary

On Monday 21st ,after the breakfast, we have met the French students and we have gone round the school .
We have visited the school laboratory, I think I have never seen something so great!
At 11 o’clock we started to show our works, such as Mammiano’s suspension bridge, Pistoia’s Cinema Eden and the works about Pontedera and our school.
After that French students showed us their works about some important structures in Paris and in other important cities.
Then we have had lunch in the school canteen.
In the afternoon we have taken the bus to Père Lachaise Cemetery, where we have visited Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Chopin and Proust’s graves.
Later we returned to the Hotel and we went to the restaurant where we have eaten.
In this day we had the opportunities to visit another type of school, in my opinion it is more equipped and more beautiful than our school.
I think it was an important experience for me and my friends and I felt very happy and excited to live it.

SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

The 4th grade of the Building and Environment section in our school, has carried out a project based on the study of architectonic structures in metal between the end of the ‘800 and the beginning of the ‘900 in Italy and France, for this reason it was twinned with a school in Paris , called Lycèe Hector Guimard, a vocational school.
The surveyors class has studied in Italy with the teacher Francesco Bibbiani several structures in metal such as: The Suspension Bridge in San Marcello Pistoiese, The Food Market in Livorno, The Chains Bridge near Bagni di Lucca, The Poggio Fountain and The Eden Cinema in Pistoia, The San Lorenzo Market in Florence, The Church in Follonica and the Eiffel Tower.
After that the students went to Paris with the teachers Bibbiani and Di Pierro to widen their studies, to show their own works to the French students and to know what the French students had prepared for the exchange.
All works made by the Italian students, were translated in English with the help of the teacher Di Pierro and were shown by power point presentations.
The Italian students attended the French school for seven days, the lessons, the canteen and they appreciated a lot the welcoming from both French multiethnic students and teachers.
Besides the Eiffel Tower, they could know different structures in metal built in the city, with the guide of the French teachers and their students.

mercoledì 25 maggio 2011

The french school, part I


The Professional Licée Hector Guimard, built between 1960 and 1962 and restored in 2007, currently accomodates more than 500 students and teaches them the building and arts crafts and job. Another internship will be open by the end of 2011.

The restoration and expansion works will allow the school to grant new sections and classes, to a maximum of 600 students. The end of works is fixed by April 2011.


The restoration will include a general renewal of every building

, and a reset of the security standards and accessibility to handicapped people, the creation of underground car park needed to expand the external areas. It will involve the eventual demolition of existing buildings. The project was chosen after an architectural competition. The operation will be conducted in compliance with a HQE (High Environmental Quality).




mercoledì 27 aprile 2011

RIASSUNTO DEL PROGETTO







La classe 4c dei geometri ha svolto un progetto che si è basato sullo studio di strutture architettoniche in metallo fra la fine dell'800 e l'inizio del 900 in Italia e in Francia. A tal finesi è gemellata con una scuola di Parigi, il Lycèe Hector Guimard, una scuola professionale che forma fabbri,idraulici, installatori e manutentori termici,pittori di rivestimenti, piastrellisti mosaici, manutentori di edifici, tecnici di finitura, assistenti architetti,scalpellini e tecnici di costruzioni.