Located in a traditional workers’ area, withhousing and industrial developments datingfrom the 19th and 20th centuries, the schooloccupies the site of an old heavy-oil tank fora municipal power station. The demolition ofa third of the tank created a 6.20-metre-deeppit in which the school was placed. Constructedentirely in exposed concrete, the fivestoreybuilding rises by one floor above theremaining part of the tank