Aix-en-Provence - Library of the Faculty of Law
- department: Bouches-du-Rhône
- town: Aix-en-Provence
- naming: Law School Library
- address : avenue Robert Schuman
- authors: Fernand POUILLON, René EGGER (architects)
- date: 1950-1954
- protection: unprotected building
- label patrimoine XXe: Commission régionale du patrimoine et des sites (CRPS) du 16 November 2006
In the 1940s, architects Pierre Sardou and Boët were commissioned by the Faculty of Arts and Law of Aix-en-Provence. After the war, the yard was completed by René Egger and Fernand Pouillon.
The latter alone will build the library building.
The south-facing library on the front of the Law School consists of three bodies of buildings articulated around an inner courtyard. The public portion on the raised ground floor is covered with four-slope round tile roofs. The entrance consists of a covered gallery roof terrace, with monumental pilasters, closing the square courtyard of 14.50 m side. The stone ensemble harmonizes with the neoclassical style of the faculty.
The east façade, made of cut stone and located below the railway tracks, (currently hidden by buildings) is remarkable for its six large mullioned windows. Reserves shall be treated in a special manner.
Located to the north, the building, covered with a roof terrace, rises on six levels. Its gables are blind and its two main facades lit with twenty-six bays of vertical windows in relief.
- Editor: Sylvie Denante, drac paca crmh, 2006
- Source: Jean-Lucien Bonillo, Agnès Fuzibet, Inventaire de l'œuvre de Fernand Pouillon en Provence, ensa Marseille-laboratoire Inama, Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône-Archives départementales, drac paca, 1995
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