Les Violettes School Complex and Recreation Center / HEMAA ArchitectesFranceArchitects: HEMAA ArchitectesAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:1997 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2025 PhotographsPhotographs:Sergio Grazia, Nicolas Da SilvaMore SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. The Parisian agency HEMAA (Charles Hesters and Pierre Martin-Saint-Etienne) completed the Les Violettes school complex in November 2024 in Mareil-Marly (France), commissioned by the city. This project includes 16 classrooms, comprising a new kindergarten, an extension of six classrooms for the elementary school, and a recreation center. Area: 2,000 m. Budget: 7.10 million. The Les Violettes school complex is a village within the village of Mareil-Marly. Located on the heights of the town, the site is bordered by numerous remarkable trees and enjoys an unobstructed view to the west of the Paris metropolitan area, with the towers of La Dfense visible in the distance. The existing buildings, with varied architectures from different periods, are nestled among trees and greenery, providing a privileged setting for children. HEMAA designed a garden school that preserves and enhances the qualities of this natural environment. The building, with its material palette of wood and glass, reflects the foliage of the trees, while the spatial layout emphasizes transparency between building volumes and openness to the sky.Save this picture!Save this picture!To maximize the surface area available for playgrounds sheltered from prevailing winds, the two new buildings are situated in the western corner of the site. The two new volumes and the existing elementary school building are linked by two luminous gaps that accommodate the double-height through-halls: the first, at the junction with the existing structure, serves as the elementary school hall, while the second, combining the kindergarten hall and covered play area, brings abundant natural light to the interior street. The kindergarten is entirely on the ground floor, with all classrooms offering direct access to the courtyardan essential request from the teaching staff. In both the old and new courtyards, the open-ground areas around the existing trees have been enlarged. Rainwater is redirected into these slightly recessed areas to encourage natural infiltration.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Evocative and Poetic Materiality. The choice of a lightweight, prefabricated French wooden structure reduced the noise and duration of the construction work, minimizing the impact on the site, which remained in use by the school community. The design highlights the fragmented nature of the structure with distinct treatments for the ground floor and the upper level. The ground floor, a visual anchor for the children, forms a base that is widely open to the courtyards. It is clad in factory-treated vertical wooden slats. This cladding, made of French Douglas fir, is pre-aged with a gray finish to ensure its appearance remains stable over time. The upper level is wrapped in a reflective skin of mirrored aluminum panels interspersed with glass windows. The facade reflects the foliage of the trees, the sky, and the distant landscape, causing the building to change its appearance and colors with the seasons and weather. The softly curved and taut roofs appear to float above the courtyards.Save this picture!Save this picture!Inside, raw materials are prioritized. The wooden framework is exposed throughout and the prefabricated concrete walls of the halls, which stabilize the structure, are left untreated. Acoustics are managed with compacted natural wood fiber placed between the structural beams. The insulation is made of wood wool. The utility systems are exposed and neatly integrated. The compact design of the building, which prioritizes playground space, led to the installation of central corridors that distribute rooms on both sides. To naturally illuminate these spaces, windows are incorporated into the walls separating classrooms and corridors. The ends of these circulation spaces are also glazed, ensuring that every point offers a view of the outdoors and surrounding greenery.Save this picture!Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessAbout this officeHEMAA ArchitectesOfficePublished on January 24, 2025Cite: "Les Violettes School Complex and Recreation Center / HEMAA Architectes " [Les Violettes School Complex and Recreation Center / HEMAA Architectes ] 24 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1026105/les-violettes-school-complex-and-recreation-center-hemaa-architectes&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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Fords Raptor T1+ was built for the Dakar Rally, a grueling two-week off-road challenge in Saudi Arabia.Image: MARIAN CHYTKA / Ford ShareThe Dakar Rally, one of the toughest and most respected off-road races in the world, covers a distance greater than the total combined mileage of an F1 season in just two weeks. Over some of the most unforgiving desert terrain in the world, the Dakar attracts tenacious, dogged competitors who push their vehicles (and themselves) to the max.For the 2025 rally, Ford entered the T1+ category with purpose-built Raptors piloted by a collection of fierce competitors. The team included notable names like Carlos Sainz, Sr., a four-time Dakar champion; rallycross expert Mattias Ekstrm; King of the Hammers star Mitch Guthrie Jr.; and Nani Roma, a two-time Dakar champion in both motorcycle and car categories.The 47th edition of the Dakar kicked off with the Prologue Stage on Friday, January 3, and finished on Friday, January 17. Together, the Ford teams piloted vehicles equipped with 5.0-liter V8 engines that werent quite stock, but started out as the same V8 thats available in a new F-150.Built for unrelenting miseryLaunched in 1979 with a grueling route between Paris, France and Dakar, Senegal, the Dakar Rally required teams to cross through Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Upper Volta on their way into the heart of western Africa. As geopolitical winds shifted, the rally moved from Europe and Africa to South America and resumed in 2020 across Saudi Arabia.Wind whips through the region on a daily basis, filling every crevice with sand as it emancipates itself from a massive carpet of dunes. Based on what I know about competing across 2,000 miles in eight days for the Rebelle Rally, driving 5,000 miles in 14 days for the Dakar sounds like a feat for superhumans.With two Fox shocks at each corner, the Raptor T1+ is equipped to handle extreme terrain.Image: Ford Robert GrayIts two weeks of unrelenting misery, to be honest, says Jay Ward, the director of global Ford Performance communications. Hes only half joking.To conquer that kind of terrain, Fords team created the Raptor T1+ with extreme toughness in mind. However, Ward says, the Dakar vehicles include very specific attributes from Fords mass-production Raptor trucks. Take a look at the front grille and kick plates, and youll recognize elements from the Raptor line. Its as if Ford took an F-150 and injected it with some kind of potion that beefed it up and gave it superhero powers.Weve tried to bring some of the attributes of [our mass production vehicles] into the Raptor T1+, but ultimately what it has to do is extraordinary, Ward says. As good as our street cars are, not even they could take this on.To power the rally vehicles, the Ford team looked at all of the engines across its entire portfolio, including the hybrid setups. Ultimately, Ward says it came down to needing a powerplant that would be ultra-reliable and tested in the toughest environments. Fords modular Coyote V8 enginethe same one that powers the 500-hp Mustang Dark Horserose to the top as the clear choice.I wouldnt say the entire program was built around the [Coyote V8] engine, but it became very obvious very quickly we could start building the vehicle around it, Ward says.Magic carpet seats and dampersOnce the engine was selected, the rest of the Raptor T1+ fell into place. A tubular chassis forms the base; Ward explains that a standard chassis brings inherent compromises to the table. If youre going to win, you need to start from scratch with a modular tube frame, he says.The shocks play an important role in this truck, as the challenging course necessitates a huge amount of suspension travel. Ford chose Fox shocks, which are also used in its F-150 pickups. The Raptor T1+, however, has two shocks at each corner that can take on anything that the Dakar Rally would throw at it, says director of product communications Mike Levine.Body panels were crafted from carbon fiber for its lightweight properties, and that meant if any part was damaged during testing, it had to be tossed and another piece installed. Carbon fiber is expensive, which contributes to the total cost of each build; a conservative estimate for each truck of this caliber might approach the $1 million mark.The Raptor T1+ employs Fords legendary Coyote V8 engine, which is used in the Mustang GT and available in the F-150.Image: Ford Seats are also critical, as the drivers and co-drivers are sitting in the cabin for at least eight hours per day for two weeks straight. As tempting as it might have been to use a lightweight sport racing seat in the Raptor T1+, the build team knew the competitors would be very uncomfortable within a half hour. In fact, Ward had the unique opportunity to ride along with Sainz, Sr on a test run in Morocco to see exactly how well the seats turned out.[Carlos Sainz] launched this thing into the future, and as we came towards a gully I thought, Well, this is going to be by far the biggest accident of my life. If I survive it, Ill be a lucky man. And we hit this thing and honestly, it was like being on a bloody magic carpet. The thing just floated straight over the top of it.At the end of the Dakar Rally, the Ford Raptor T1+ notched a third-place podium finish in the Ultimate category in its debut year. The Blue Oval will take what it learned and come back next year with new enhancements. Even more importantly, the data Ford gathers from this custom Raptor T1+ will be applied to its passenger cars and trucks, making them better in the long run as well.

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Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04211-6Bursts of electromagnetic radiation that share similarities with birdsong have long been observed close to Earth. A detection farther out in space confirms a key part of the theory of their origin, but also poses questions.

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08450-5Complete human recombination maps are presented that enable exploration of both cross-over and non-cross-over events during meiosis, with the potential to provide insight into the causes of aneuploidies and pregnancy loss.

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the alien world spins.

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system for dangerous space weather.

Circana has shared new video game data that shows how challenging 2024 was for video game hardware. Total spending on PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch devices in the US declined a gargantuan 25%, dropping to $4.9 billion (down from $6.45 billion in 2023).For December 2024 specifically, spending on new video game hardware fell 29%, declining to $1.1 billion. PS5 hardware sales in December 2024 dropped by 18%, with Xbox Series X|S and Switch sales each declining a more precipitous 38%.A major drop in spending on video game hardware is expected, of course, given PS5 and Xbox Series X|S being past their prime selling peaks and the Switch's maturity in the market, Circana's Mat Piscatella said. That said, Piscatella commented that the decline was bigger than he expected.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Lineages in One Piece, despite the series emphasizing how finding a family is more important than a biological family, is still an extremely important part. For many characters in the series, their goals and abilities are somehow linked all the way back to their families. One clan of characters specifically, those who possess the will of the D, are arguably one of the most important groups in One Piece, especially when it comes to inherited will and lineage.