San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area

San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola

San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area

ELE Arkitektura

ARCHITECTS
Ele Arkitektura

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Eduardo Landia Ormaetxea, Eloi Landia Ormaetxea

LANDSCAPE
Cengotita

CONSTRUCTION
Eguraitz Eraikuntzak

PHOTOGRAPHS
Aitor Estevez Olaizola

AREA
2830 M²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Spain

CATEGORY
Educational Architecture

San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola

Understanding the crucial role of architecture in channeling desire through spatial, material, and affective relationships, this second intervention of San Antonio School aims to transfer the concepts and sensitivities developed with younger students in the first intervention at the school to students aged 7 to 12.

San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola

Once again, it is understood that the desire to play and learn freely is the driving force behind the pedagogy of the future, and therefore, an attempt has been made to transform a traditional courtyard into an oasis of creativity.

Maintaining the wild and natural character of the environment, sinuous hills about 2.5m high have been created, which allow vision through the wall and are capable of dividing the space into perfectly differentiated enclosures despite being a single continuous space.

San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola

Each of the zones is endowed with a different character. The first is the amphitheater and productive and cultivation area. The second zone houses play and sports activities.

The third, located at the top of the hill, will be the large meeting dome. Linked to each of the zones and integrated into the surrounding slopes, auxiliary programmatic volumes of reinforced concrete and wood have been constructed.

San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola

The first auxiliary pavilion contains a storage area for the gardens, a viewpoint that frames Mount Mugarra, and a covered meeting space. The second pavilion consists of three cubes open on one side and groups together three different modes of interaction between users and the environment.

By opening gaps in the perimeter walls of the plot, new views are generated for passersby, blurring the boundaries between the dense urban fabric of the historic center of Durango and the green areas belonging to the school and the San Francisco convent.

San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola


San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola

San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola
San Antonio Primary School 2.0. Exterior Area
© Aitor Estevez Olaizola


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