Les Carolines Playground and Dinning Room
LES CAROLINES PLAYGROUND AND DINNING ROOM
Pablo Ribera Pons + Joseán Vilar Pons
CATEGORY
Schools
LOCATION
Picassent, Spain
AREA
1711.0 m2
ARCHITECTS
Pablo Ribera Pons & Joseán Vilar Pons
YEAR
2008
PHOTOGRAPHS
Fernando Alda
Text description provided by architect.
The cooperative Escola Les Carollines needs to grow so they decide to create a new building to hold the playground and a new dinning room for the entire school.
The construction must be placed in a 2,900 m2 parcel that has been used as a garden. Its complex geometry has to solve a program that would fill up it’s entire surface.
In order to maximize the free space, uses must be superposed, which means a conflict with child’s mobility.
It´s proposed a building that coils up in the parcel adopting a spiral shape that solves the connection between levels, making the most of the natural slope of the land to stay semi-buried.
This operation gives us the possibility to use the roof as a garden and a part of the schoolyard as well.
The spiral born in the ground, turns defining a patio, and keeps on rising until it becomes a belvedere projected towards the landscape. The rusted concrete walls help to integrate the piece in the environment.
