Rossend Montané School

Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia

ROSSEND MONTANÉ SCHOOL

GGG

ARCHITECTS
GGG

LOCATION
Olèrdola, Spain

AREA
2791 m²

CATEGORY
Schools

CLIENT
GISA / Departament d’ Educació de la Generalitat de Catalunya

COLLABORATORS
Marta Ventura, Cristian Zanoni, Rafael Mejías 

YEAR
2011

PHOTOGRAPHS
José Hevia

MANUFACTURERS
ULMA Architectural Solutions

CONSULTANTS
BOMA (estructuras), Taller d’enginyeria (instalaciones) 

Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia
Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia

The school extends from the village limit into a sea of vineyards of the Penedés region, south of Barcelona.

The volume, structured in two different wings, is split into several pieces by intermittent interior courtyards.

Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia
Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia

Courtyards that gather the different classrooms and circulation space around them.

Multiples openings perforate the courtyard facades, forming a permeable limit and visual connection with the surrounding landscape.

Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia
Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia
Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia
Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia

Two materials, both concrete products, different look. On one side, a raw concrete bloc (used also to form lattice walls) and on the other side a concrete polymer panel, bright, colored and shiny with a texture that refers to the surrounding landscape.

A building designed deliberately with elementary materials, almost without any coating, prepared for students to appropriate their walls.

Rossend Montané School
© José Hevia


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