The new Kindergarten designed by RIPOLLTIZON is the extension of the School Complex “Bartomeu Ordines” in Consell, Mallorca (Spain). The project is located on the fringe of urban fabric and brushes the countryside on an East-West axis.
The new building program is developed in a single storey and comprises: six classrooms for children between 3 and 5 years old (with a toilet and a private outdoor courtyard for each classroom), one psychomotor classroom, an administration area, a dining room (including kitchen and storage area), a vegetable garden and a common playground for all the pupils.
The kindergarten has to meet two key requirements: the first is that all the classrooms and its exterior private courtyards should preferably be oriented East to utilise the morning sun for natural lighting; the second is to provide an access between the new and the existing building so that the new dining room can be utilised by all the pupils of the school complex, although the new building should also operate independently.
The need to create the main access from the Avenue and to establish a pedestrian connection with the existing building led us to design a building to be crossed. The building will be like a 'path'. We like thinking of this 'path' as the starting point of the project: a colourful route in zig-zag that drives the children through the site while it organizes the indoor and outdoor spaces.
In order to arrange the functional needs along this 'path' we developed a typology of 'classroom cluster' that connects together two classrooms (including its linked toilets and courtyards). A glazed facade oriented East opens the cluster to a private courtyard that serves as the outdoor extension of each classroom.
Three differentiated pavilions, each of them formed by a 'classroom-cluster' together with other program areas, are huddled close to create an in-between space, the 'path'. The roof plan clearly shows the relation between the pavilions and the 'path' using differentiated volumes. On the one hand the pavilions maintain a regular height, on the other hand the hallway roof follows the zig-zag route of the 'path': gaining height to greet us in the main entrance, driving us to the classrooms through a more compressed space and finally offering us an open sheltered area next to the playground. It becomes a vibrant and folded shadow roofing that covers and embraces us borrowing the colours of the orange groves nearby.
Architects: Pep Ripoll and Juan Miguel Tizón
Collaborators: Pablo García (architect)
Quantity Surveyor: Toni Arqué
IBISEC Collaborators: Juan Vanrell (architect IBISEC)
José Juan Amengual (quantity surveyor IBISEC)
Structural Engineer: Jorge Martín
Building Services E.: TIIS Ingeniería
Photographers: José Hevia
Client: Institut d’Infraestructures i Serveis Educatius i Cultural (IBISEC)
Contractors: Ferrovial
Project Area: 996,05 sqm
Budget: 1.360.167 EUR
Start of Design: 2007
Year of Completion: 2010
Location: Francisca Homar Pascual Av. - Consell. Mallorca. Spain
Awards: 2011 - Mallorca Architectural Awards 2007-2010 | SHORTLISTED
↧