Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés
05/11/2013.
By David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. [Vilanova del Vallés, BCN] Spain
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David Sebastian and Gerard Puig designed a kindergarten attending numerous and stringent limitations. The proposal that wins the competition is a connection between the existing and new building based on macla to a greater or a lesser extent depending on the program, to get a unit that can function independently with different accesses. It is important to emphasize that the architects face to many limitations and requirements when they start a project, this is a clear example.
Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Interior view of Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Interior view of Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Interior view of Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Interior view of Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Interior view of Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Location plan, Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes.
Ground floor, Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes.
First floor, Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes.
North elevation and longitudinal section, Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes.
Longitudinal and cross sections, Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes.
Constructive section, Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes.
Exploded axonometry, Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes.
Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Kindergarten Bressol in Vilanova del Vallés by David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes. Photography © Adrià Goula.
Memory of project por david sebastian + gerard puig arquitectes
We were asked to build a kindergarten adapting the ground floor of an old farmhouse. On the first floor a multi-purpose hall was also required with a separate entrance.
The terraced nature of the plot dictates the use of a double ramp descent to enter the school, whilst also allowing access to the multi-purpose hall via a gangway that is almost at ground level.
We plan the project as an ensemble between the existing building and the new construction. The new building consists of different strips that penetrate the farmhouse structure as per the requirements of the project.
A first strip of concrete runs along the southern façade and replaces a section of the lower part of the old building in order to incorporate exits from the school to the playground and a protective porch.
A second strip, the same width as the classrooms, is constructed of pre-fabricated pieces of concrete that make up a suspended floor to serve as a terrace for the multi-purpose hall. The strip turns up vertically at the end to generate a gap for the wooden gangway and hide the side wall.
Another strip of ceramic tiling creates a skylight over the passageway to the school and leads to the multi-purpose hall, whilst also enclosing the toilets.
A further strip ends before connecting with the farmhouse in order to form the playground.
The materials employed seek to provide a neutral, austere atmosphere, purposefully avoiding an excess of permanent stimulants.
Further lines, ornamentation and colour will be more than catered for by the future little users and their guardians, who can renovate the decoration as often as they like, and far more effectively than we could.
Text.- David Sebastian + Gerard Puig Arquitectes.
CREDITS.-
Main architects.- David Sebastian, Gerard Puig.
Team collaborators.- Glenn Deulofeu, Ramon Cisa.
Owner.- Town Hall Vilanova del Valles.
Builder.- Calam Tapias Construccions.
Date.- 2010 (finalization).
Budget.- 700.000 €.
Surface.- 645 m² (total floor area).
Site.- Calle Pere Calders s/n, Vilanova del Vallés. Barcelona, Spain.
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ARQUITECTES DAVID SEBASTIAN - GERARD PUIG
David Sebastian and Gerard Puig are architects graduated by “Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona” [ETSAB] in 2001. Pines and Aymerich-Save complete their formation in the Car to me Study respectively. The office was created the year 2000 in Barcelona by David Sebastian, and from 2006 they have shared study and projects.
David Sebastian has been professor invited in the School of Architecture of Talca (Chile), EDRA School (Rubí) and the Eina School (Barcelona). Gerard Puig has been professor in school EDRA (Rubí) between 2003 and 2009. They have received diverse prizes and mentions, and its work has been shown in different exhibitions like “Arquitectures Sense Lloc” (Barcelona, 2009), and “Sensible Matter: 10 Catalan Young Architects” (Lisbon, A Coruña, Berlin and Barcelona, 2010-2012).
They were selected like one of the 9 representing offices of the “Catalan and Balearic Pavilion” (Vogadors_Architectural Rowers) in the last edition of the Biennale of Architecture Venice 2012, and recently its work “Art and Design School in Amposta” has been name to the Prize of Contemporary Architecture of the Union Europea_Mies Van der Rohe 2013.
