Nursery in La Pañoleta

Calle Mairena del Aljarafe, Tomares, Spain

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Nursery in La Pañoleta

Calle Mairena del Aljarafe, Tomares, Spain

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Type

Educational › Elementary School

YEAR

2012

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

The
decision of building a nursery in this area tries to solve an historical lack of
such services. The location of the building in a development area, next to a
marginal zone, becomes an important point of the project, in addition to the
morphology of the plot, not particularly suited to outdoors functions that are
supposed to a building of this type.
The social
environment of the building is characterized by an extremely contrasted situation,
where social housing and high cost housing living on both sides of the street.
This has caused a certain hermetic attitude of the high-cost housing, caused by
excessive extroversion of social housing tenants, who make the street an
extension of the house.
Furthermore,
the City Council has planned a concentration of school equipment in order to
facilitate relations between these.
This has
generated a certain kind of tensions in the design phase of the project, which
has induced, in some way, an introverted character of the building, but the
basic approach is to not turn away from that reality. The administrative area
and professors are set at San Juan de Aznalfarache Street, next to the
aforementioned marginal zone, orienting classroom to south and east, on the
opposite side of the plot.
This
configuration, together with the rectangular shape, very elongated, causes the
appearance of a series of courtyards that articulates the interior of the
building. Over this organizational scheme stands a continuous deck, which rises
controlled in certain points to generate some skylights that illuminate the
interior of the distribution areas and give indirect lighting to classrooms.
To attend the
need of short time work execution, it
was decided to adopt prefabricated large format building systems, precast
concrete panels façade, plasterboard partitions, zinc roof, which together with
the steel structure and composite floor slab, has reduced execution times
enormously.
There are
two fundamental aspects that link the building with the public promotion that
generates it: 1. the search for a low maintenance and energy consumption. Highly
durable materials such as zinc, concrete and HPC, and controls energy
consumption and support renewable energy are used, and 2. the possibility of
using of the building out of school time as a meeting facility of potential
neighborhood associations, by configuring of control and access area, along
with the multi-purpose room and kitchen-dining room, separating these rooms from
the rest of the center.