Primary School in La Milagrosa by Pereda Pérez Arquitectos

Description of the project by Pereda Pérez Arquitectos

In the project of the primary school in Pamplona, the place is the main factor without which it we could not understand this project. The plot, the result of a land subdivision, is located on the edge of a suburb of Pamplona. The geometry of the plot was almost three-cornered and it had two sidewalls corresponding to the rear of some residential buildings while the third side which was the larger one, was facing south open to a square from which it is provide access.

The program is basically five educational modules fit, a big general space which organizes the above spaces and allows its use as a courtyard when the weather conditions do not allow enjoy two outdoor play yards, with their porches including also requested, in addition to some internal areas management, services and facilities.

In the inside of the plot there is a bay for the non-public service areas, facilities management and organized around a courtyard that gives them their primary needs ventilation and lighting stands. Between the two bays, stands the real organizer central space of the building, circulation space, playground, multiple-purpose room at the same time communicates with porches and playgrounds is situated directly. Educational modules, consisting of a classroom, a bedroom, a workshop and bathroom looking organized physical and visual continuity, except the bedroom which is isolated, to ensure the required function.

In a plot with a deep facing a unique facade, the proposal is structured with architectural courtyards and skylights mechanisms that guarantee the building of their primary needs and ventilation. The lighting skylights, as mechanisms of direct light sensors, overlap and they grow in height by hand deep into the ground with the mission to bring light and at the same time improve the visual impact of the dividing wall to be tempered by these volumes. And the courtyards, indirect light diffusers, enhancing and creating that intimate lighting in each room of the educational modules.

Constructively the project is characterized by the use of prefabricated concrete elements. On one side in the ribbed slabs that allow large lights spaces, flexibility and construction speed. On the other hand latticework façade made also with prefabricated concrete and concrete form building singles. The latticework, as a protection mechanism campuses on the square without isolating, guarantees four areas in which the project is interested; good control of sunlight, greater privacy in a building of these characteristics located on the ground floor, ensuring a better presence of this in the public arena and assuming qualifying the "chaos" typical of this type of buildings controlled and finally get together built at the end of the outdoor courtyards in the same way the game has more packaging building in the conditions of the site.

Finally the project from its design, treats a growing concern today around sustainability. And certainly, this works adjectives prominently on the one hand the use of geothermal energy, as a clean and sustainable energy. On the other treatment as a garden deck surface while improving the thermal performance of the building enhances its visual impact to treat a building on one level between housing higher.