The use of the domestic scale in almost invisible school by ABLM arquitectos

This school located in the municipality of Villares de la Reina, an area with industrial estates that have disfigured the scale of the city and transformed the landscape, reflects on the domestic scale of this type of infrastructures which have to be colonized by children.

Exterior view. The almost invisible school by ABLM arquitectos. Photograph by ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero).

ABLM arquitectos are the ones in charge of this school thought like a great base, with a coloured ceramic façade that symbolizes the singularities and equalities of each boy and girl, and another facade with a mirror finish that fades the upper part of the project as it reflects the sky.

Description of the project by ABLM arquitectos

In the metropolitan area of the city of Salamanca, the municipality of Villares de la Reina stands out for its transformation during the last decades by hosting one of the industrial estates of the city. The changes have partially disfigured the scale and transformed the material landscape conditions.

The almost invisible school proposes a reflection on the domestic scale of this type of infrastructure where the little ones must find spaces that they can catch and places with which they can dream.

The ground floor accessible from the outside is a large ceramic base made up of vertical pieces of seven colours made by Toni Cumella, which symbolize both the singularity and the equality of each child and each girl, collecting and enclosing the scale of the courtyards and play areas.

The upper areas are coated with an aluminium composite stacbond finished with mirror panels. These surfaces fade reflecting the sky and also the perimeter trees making this second level, necessary in the program, disappear like a magic game and ables the school infrastructure to recover a more domestic scale.

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Indoors view. The almost invisible school by ABLM arquitectos. Photograph by ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero).

Indoors view. The almost invisible school by ABLM arquitectos. Photograph by ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero).rior. El colegio casi invisible por ABLM arquitectos. Fotografía © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero).

Exterior detail. The almost invisible school by ABLM arquitectos. Photograph by ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero).

Site plan. The almost invisible school by ABLM arquitectos.

Plot plant. The almost invisible school by ABLM arquitectos.

Ground floor plan. The almost invisible school by ABLM arquitectos.

Elevations. The almost invisible school by ABLM arquitectos.

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Architects

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ABLM Arquitectos. Lead architects.- Arturo Blanco + Laura Martínez.

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Team

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Sergio Azofra, Verónica Fernández, Inés Gutiérrez, Isaac Bachiller,
Nacho Alonso

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Collaborators

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Bulding technician.- Ángel García. Structure.- Jacinto de la Riva. MEP Engineering-.- Fernando Aguado, Miguel Ángel Sanz.

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Client

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Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Educación

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Builder

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Gómez Crespo Obras y Servicios S.L.

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Area

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2,600 m²

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Date

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July 2017

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Venue

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Villares de la Reina (Salamanca), Spain

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Photography

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ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero).

Arturo Blanco, Laura Martínez. ABLM arquitectos

ABLM arquitectos. Arturo Blanco and Laura Martínez founded ABLM Architects in 2014 obtaining different first prizes in ideas competitions. Their works have been collected in many books, monographs and specialized magazines in Europe, America and Asia. Arturo Blanco is an architect by ETSA Valladolid (1995), cofounder and partner of BmasC Arquitectos from 1998 until its dissolution in 2012. He is a professor of Architectural Projects at ETSAM and, a professor collaborator at the MPAA of the UPM and the UCJC in Madrid. He is also an Architectural Record Design Vanguard (New York, 2006). Laura Martínez is an architect by the ETSA of Valladolid (2005) and Master in Advanced Architectural Projects by ETSAM (2015).

ABLM Arquitectos develops its strategies from a multidisciplinary platform proposing answers to the problems offered by contemporaneity. Within the group, there are different research initiatives such as the LabIO group [Lab of Optimistic Initiatives] that generates proposals of resolution for conflicts from the juxtaposition of architecture, planning and sociology. Another way of research is the search for new proposals in the world of children and youth, within educational and residential programs, opening possibilities and relationships among users.

Published on: October 24, 2017

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