Pierre and Colette Soulages Primary School / NAS architecture + GTASave this picture!© Severin Malaud•Montpellier, France Architects: GTA, NAS architecture Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3500 m² Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025 Photographs Photographs:Severin Malaud, Mary Gaudin Lead Architects: NAS Architecture More SpecsLess Specs Save this picture! Text description provided by the architects. The building of the former annex of the Montpellier Music Conservatory, located in the heart of the Écusson district and in close proximity to the Saint-Pierre Cathedral, holds significant heritage value. Since it was acquired by the Ursulines in 1679 to establish the Saint-Charles House, the complex has undergone numerous modifications and substantial densification, particularly during the 20th century. Our intervention consisted of a complete rehabilitation of the building to accommodate the Pierre and Colette Soulages Primary School. To achieve this, we adopted a subtractive approach. Through a meticulous process of archaeological assessment and identification of remarkable elements, we developed a methodology for preserving and reinforcing key features while making bold decisions about demolitions to recover the site's essence.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Restoring the original porosity helped reduce density and bring natural light into the heart of the building, symbolized by a patio that reveals the original layout of the Courtyard of the Hôtel de Brissac. The chapel also regained its original volume following the removal of an intermediate floor added in the 1990s. This complex and demanding rehabilitation process, balancing secular considerations and memory preservation, enabled the creation of a new, unique place where children's well-being is valued above all.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!A Rediscovered Porosity -Save this picture!Save this picture!Traces of past modifications, such as 20th-century wall openings, have been preserved as hollow marks, now forming part of the vertical surfaces that narrate the building's turbulent history and evolution. The patio also contributes to thermal regulation through natural ventilation, creating a refreshing microclimate. The new openings assert their identity within the overall space composition, allowing classrooms to benefit from cross-ventilation.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Sequencing Through Voids - Three oversized vertical openings segment the building revealing key historical junctures. The first one, visible from the school's new entrance, marks the sale of the Ursuline convent in 1792 following the French Revolution and the simultaneous addition of the "West Wing". The second one, visible in the current patio, highlights the 1857 connection between the former Hôtel de Brissac and the raised West Wing, enclosing the convent's Grand Courtyard.Save this picture!Save this picture!The third void, at the gable end of the West Wing, frames the gallery while directing the gaze towards the National School of Dramatic Arts of Montpellier, which was once connected to the current building. Demolitions in the 1990s erased the historical urban fabric—now only signified by these large openings. Large-scale aluminum-framed windows provide generous natural light throughout the school while offering new perspectives on Montpellier's historic city center.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Design Choices and Secularism - The chapel is a powerful marker of the site's history. Built-in 1857 by architect Nulma Polge in a neo-Gothic style, it was heavily altered in the 1990s with the addition of a concrete mezzanine dividing the building into two performance spaces for the Conservatory. The main goal of the rehabilitation was to restore the original volume by removing this intermediate floor. Once removed, the entire space was treated uniformly with a lime-coated non-woven fabric to unify the deteriorated walls without damaging the decor—though many elements were pastiches of uncertain age. All stained glass windows were carefully removed, restored using traditional methods, and reinstalled.Save this picture!Save this picture!Contemporary additions are present but discreet, avoiding interference with the historic massing. Heating and ventilation systems were integrated into the floor, while acoustics and lighting were handled via freestanding metal frames with stretched fabric, adding rhythm to each bay. The result is a strong yet measured intervention, where secularism is addressed through the lens of heritage respect, turning the former chapel into a multipurpose activity room—acknowledging the paradox of a public school housed in a former convent.Save this picture!Save this picture!Stratification of exterior spaces - Around the 1880s, garden-side galleries were built with cast-iron columns, brick vaulting, and metal-beamed floors. These walkways provide shade and shelter, offering large outdoor extensions connected directly to the first-floor classrooms. Due to various structural, fire safety, and accessibility issues, comprehensive reinforcement work was necessary to open these areas to public use. These now-functional spaces offer shaded outdoor study areas—perfect for Montpellier's Mediterranean climate.Save this picture!Save this picture!The playground is divided into two different levels. The patio's cobblestones extend into the upper playground, becoming more spaced out to encourage vegetation growth. The lower courtyard is fully permeable with a wood chip surface and around ten newly planted trees. Over time, it will develop into a small urban forest, nurturing a direct connection to nature.Save this picture!Save this picture!Embracing the Site's Material History with Humility - The interior spaces were treated with restraint and simplicity. Stone walls were stripped of accumulated layers, revealing finely laid masonry that reflects former architectural functions. Concrete was chosen for its ability to open learning spaces toward circulation areas. Left raw and sandblasted, it now shapes part of the spatial identity. Other interventions favored timber in all its forms: from solid or perforated wall paneling to fiber ceiling, and custom furniture installations to refine the entrances and conceal technical ducts. All floors were entirely removed, leaving only the main beams exposed. A new floor system was installed using a technique that preserved visible beams below, completed with a clay-bead screed, and finished with appropriate acoustic flooring. These choices were made to provide optimal learning conditions aligned with the expectations of a contemporary primary school.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The Pierre and Colette Soulages Primary School acts as a bridge between its many past uses, embracing its palimpsestic heritage—exposed, layered, and reinterpreted to serve a vital new role in Montpellier's city center. Through thoughtful subtraction, the project brings light, air, and views back to every corner. Here, architecture becomes a pedagogical tool, nurturing children's curiosity through visible clues, traces, and mysteries from the site's rich history.Save this picture! Project gallerySee allShow less About this office

Amazon has angled to become a major player in the healthcare industry for years, but the company may try extending its reach into daily life even further. According to recently revealed internal documents, Amazon conducted smallscale tests in Europe that involved training contracted Prime drivers on defibrillators to help in emergency response scenarios. According to an April 10 report from Bloomberg, the series of trials known as Project Pulse began in Amsterdam in November 2023, before expanding to London, Bologna, Italy, and elsewhere. Over 100 contract Prime delivery drivers volunteered, after which they took a basic first-aid course that included CPR training. Once completed, Amazon supplied them with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) manufactured by the Dutch company Koninklijke Philips NV.AEDs are specifically designed to be used with minimal experience. The devices rely on external sensor pads that adhere to a patient’s chest while the main component’s speaker verbally directs an operator to administer a shock when needed. Although many businesses and public facilities store AEDs in the event of a medical emergency, the American Heart Association estimates only around 15 percent of heart attacks occur in these spaces. Meanwhile, the American Red Cross cites that over 70 percent of cardiac events take place in private homes. Around 90 percent of heart attack patients survive if defibrillation is administered within the first minute of the emergency. After completing training and receiving an AED, Prime drivers then downloaded citizen responder apps depending on their location. If alerted to a nearby suspected cardiac arrest emergency, Amazon’s contract workers could then travel to the location and administer care if necessary.  However, it’s unclear how often Amazon was involved in emergency response situations, and the outcomes of those emergency responses. Prime vans outfitted with basic emergency medical equipment may make sense from a logistical standpoint, but  it’s also representative of Amazon’s extension into just about every facet of daily life. Bloomberg also noted that a previous study by Koninklijke Philips included in Amazon’s internal papers estimated that AED-stocked delivery vehicles deployed across north Seattle could respond to a crisis over a minute faster than emergency medical services. Another internal document concluded it would cost Amazon less than $17 million to equip 15 percent of drivers across the company’s more than 1,100 last-mile delivery depots worldwide. Although Project Pulse has reportedly ended, similar trials were ongoing as recently as last year in Paris. Internal documents also indicate the company may try expanding the proactive emergency response measures into other regions and markets in the future.“This type of initiative is always a plus. If someone has a cardiac arrest, the more people trained and defibrillators available, the better,” said Paul Dardel, chief physician for the French first responder app Staying Alive. “And for Amazon, it valorizes their image.” The post Amazon trained Prime drivers to use defibrillators appeared first on Popular Science.

The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air. On summer evenings, in around a minute, some 2,000 greater mouse-tailed bats can crowd out of a cave opening only about three meters square in Israel’s Hula Valley, says neuroecologist Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University. From a distance, their emergence looks like “a plume of smoke,” he says. He and colleagues have now studied the echolocation chirps that let Rhinopoma microphyllum bats detect obstacles, including each other. In the crowded flight, signals from one bat often partially mask a neighbor’s, the researchers report in in the April 8 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It’s a flying mammal version of the communications perplexities of cocktail party mammals. Yet, the team found that these bats have surprisingly few collisions. Studying bats by the thousands isn’t easy. At first, “we could only record the bat from the ground,” Yovel says. That limited the information so much that he and colleagues designed microphones small enough to fasten (temporarily) to bats that weigh around 40 grams, lighter than a newborn kitten. The goal was crafting a device adding only four grams to the flying animal’s weight, a little less than a nickel. A tiny silver microphone lets greater mouse-tailed bats make the first in-air recordings of bat echolocation pinging that reduces in-air collisions when thousands fly together.Noam Cvikel Researchers used in-air recordings from four little microphones plus flight paths from 96 tracked bats to create computer models of bat exodus and echolocation. This bat version of sonar, chirping and then listening for echoes, can locate obstacles, prey and each other. At the cave’s tight exit hole, as much as 90 percent of the echolocation chirping can be masked. But pings from the important, closet neighbors in the congestion tend to be less so, especially ones from a bat directly in front because it’s projecting echolocation calls forward. Plus, the chirping “has a lot of redundancy,” Yovel says. Eventually enough pieces of a message get through. The evening rush hour commute for greater mouse-tailed bats has surprisingly few midair collisions (marked in video). Starting from inside a cave where thousands of Rhinopoma microphyllum bats huddle during the day, the colony streams out a narrow exit to hunt in Israel’s Hula Valley. Also, he adds, “the moment they emerge through the hole, they start moving to the side,” lessening collision risk. As they fly more than a kilometer in their smoke-plume formation, bat-to-bat distance leaves room to hear themselves echolocate. The paper itself could be an echo (with a twist) on a cocktail party challenge for fringe-lipped bats hunting túngara frogs in Central and South America. Targeting by sound alone would be a challenge in frog-pool cacophony. A bat’s echolocation, however, can ping one calling frog’s ballooning throat pouch.

Nature, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01108-wBiomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered into a 3D atlas that creates new possibilities for neuroscience.

Hi! I really like this scene from SpongeBob. The fact that this vehicle exists only to crush Squidward in this episode cracks me up, so I decided to turn it into 3D, playing around and reimagining the environment (and a quick night version). Software used: Blender and Substance Designer. submitted by /u/CadeteEspacial [link] [comments]

Check Out my Multiplayer Courses:https://smartpoly.teachable.comIn this step-by-step Unreal Engine 5 tutorial, I’ll show you how to build a fully functional AI turret that:✅ Tracks & shoots the player within a set range✅ Features realistic muzzle flash, bullet trails, and impact VFX✅ Stops firing when the player hides behind cover (obstacle detection)✅ Uses UE5 Blueprints (no C++ required!)Whether you're making an FPS, tower defense, or action game, this turret system is perfect for adding dynamic combat to your projects!DOWNLOAD THE FREE ASSETS HERE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eabq-ptAzqLCEOUn4zW-uPwinsqQ56iP/viewhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1h-YMdj4-uFAWiek9DA8D28UVvtR0G5IN/view?usp=sharingLINKS:---------------------------------------------------------------------------My Courses: https://smartpoly.teachable.com Survival Game Course: https://smartpoly.teachable.com/p/ue5-multiplayer-steam-survival-game-course-remasteredChannel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/@SmartPoly/joinSupport Me on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/smartpolyBuy My Complete Projects: https://smartpoly.gumroad.comDonate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/smartpoly---------------------------------------------------------------------------MY PC SPECS & AFFILIATE LINKS---------------------------------------------------------------------------Mouse: https://amzn.to/46WMdjNKeyboard: https://amzn.to/3M11SpVLaptop: https://amzn.to/3M7kjJQCPU: https://amzn.to/3tKTK6ERAM: https://amzn.to/45yvWjWGPU: https://amzn.to/3rUGMmmSSD 2TB: https://amzn.to/46QcGPSSSD 4TB: https://amzn.to/46T10f9Primary Monitor 4K: https://amzn.to/3RZxqk5Secondary Monitor 1080p: https://amzn.to/3M6X16VMicrophone: https://amzn.to/3S0aLnxAudio: https://amzn.to/3S5z5VmHeadset: https://amzn.to/45BeWJP

They just want to cheatInsurrection Barbie: Good morning. Reminder: Democrats all voted against a proof of citizenship requirement in order to vote in federal elections. Polling shows over 67% of the country supports a citizenship requirement to vote in federal elections.But they don’t care because they need to cheat.

Samsung is believed to unveil its Galaxy Z Flip 7 later this year at a Galaxy Unpacked event. While details about the clamshell foldable phone haven't been officially confirmed, new rumours about its specifications have surfaced up on the Web. According to a new report, Samsung could use its in-house Exynos 2500 chipset in its upcoming foldable phone. This would be a break from the recent past, where Samsung had used Qualcomm chipsets for its foldables. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 Could Run on Exynos 2500As per a report by Korean publication Seoul Economic Daily, Samsung's Mobile Experience (MX) Division will start mass production of new foldable phones in May at factories in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do (Korea) and Vietnam. The brand is reportedly planning to produce about 2,40,000 units of Galaxy Z Flip 7 and about 1,70,000 units of the rumoured Galaxy Z Flip FE. Meanwhile, around 1,60,000 Galaxy Z Fold 7 units will be reportedly produced in four colourways, including a new Coral Red colour option, matching the Galaxy S25 series.The report states that Samsung's MX division is conducting final tests on installing the Exynos 2500 chip on the Galaxy Z Flip 7. The brand is currently working on adopting its in-house chipset in the next generation flip-style foldable phone exclusively regardless of the region. Exynos 2500 chipset, designed by Samsung's System LSI division and produced on a 3nm process, was originally planned to be installed in the Galaxy S25 series. However, it was cancelled due to performance issues and other unknown reasons, the report states. Samsung has used Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipsets in its foldable phones since their inception. If the latest leak turns out to be true, the Galaxy Z Flip 7 could be the first to use the company's in-house Exynos SoC.The Galaxy Z Flip 7 is anticipated to launch alongside the Galaxy Z Fold 7 in July. It is rumoured to come with a 3.6-inch cover display and a 6.8-inch inner display. It could feature 12GB of RAM and could be offered in 256GB or 512GB of storage options. It is tipped to get a dual rear camera unit comprising a 50-megapixel primary sensor and a 12-megapixel ultra-wide sensor. It is likely to get a 4,300mAh battery and offer 25W wired charging speed. REVIEWKEY SPECSNEWSDesignDisplaySoftwarePerformanceBattery LifeCameraValue for MoneyGoodCompact and excellent aesthetics Top-notch display AI features loaded One UI 7 brings nice updates Decent camerasBad25W fast-charging limit Expensive (base price)Read detailed Samsung Galaxy S25 reviewDisplay 6.20-inchProcessor Snapdragon 8 EliteFront Camera 12-megapixel Rear Camera 50-megapixel + 12-megapixel + 10-megapixel RAM 12GBStorage 256GB, 512GBBattery Capacity 4000mAhOS Android 15Resolution 1080x2340 pixels For the latest tech news and reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads and Google News. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to know everything about top influencers, follow our in-house Who'sThat360 on Instagram and YouTube. Further reading: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, Samsung Nithya P Nair Nithya P Nair is a journalist with more than five years of experience in digital journalism. She specialises in business and technology beats. A foodie at heart, Nithya loves exploring new places (read cuisines) and sneaking in Malayalam movie dialogues to spice up conversations. More Related Stories