EHPAD Simone Veil, Les Ulis, France

The EHPAD Simone Veil in Les Ulis was designed by the architectural office Ameller Dubois. The facility offers older people, including residents with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, an environment that emphasizes safety, orientation, and spatial quality.

The building is designed to support residents in their daily routines while enabling a high degree of independence. Open communal areas are clearly structured to promote social interaction and facilitate orientation.

The building volume opens onto landscaped outdoor areas and terraces. Generous window fronts bring light deep into the interior and create a strong connection between indoor and outdoor spaces. Circulation routes and communal zones follow a clear, easily legible layout that conveys calm and order.

Located southwest of Paris, in the dense urban fabric of Les Ulis, the building occupies a site between residential and public areas. Its position gives it a connecting role within the neighborhood. The architects integrated the structure carefully into its surroundings, designing seamless transitions between city, garden, and interior spaces. The result is an open, welcoming building that blends into its context while providing areas of retreat.

Vertical timber louvers in warm tones structure the upper façades, filtering light, ensuring privacy, and providing solar shading. Below, the base continues this vertical motif: light fair-faced concrete panels, created with our formliner ILLER, display a fine, vertical wood texture. The result is a calm, cohesive façade composition where warm timber and robust concrete are precisely balanced.