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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Educational Center in El Chaparral, Spain by Alejandro Muñoz Miranda

 
January 27th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Alejandro Muñoz Miranda

The project is designed as a variable section of wall and ceiling that involves compressing and decompressing the space accommodates. The change of section depending of the uses (corridor / access-bathrooms / classroom / porch (outside covered corridor) / garden and outside covered playground), the sun’s movement and the longitudinal slope of the plot are responsible to design interior spaces that open to garden and outside covered playground.

Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas 

  • Architects: Alejandro Muñoz Miranda
  • Project: Educational Center in El Chaparral
  • Location: El Chaparral, Albolote (Granada), Spain
  • Photography: Javier Callejas
  • Work: 2010 (design project 2005, execution project 2008)
  • Collaborators: Gregorio Morenate Navío y Nayra Fernández-Valencia Caballero, Architects, Jesús Muñoz Miranda, Architect (Structure), Patricia Muñoz Arenas, Construction Engineer, Antonio Blas Pérez García, Industrial Engineer
  • Client: Cityhall of Albolote
  • Construction Company: UCOP
  • Total built area: 915 m2
  • Total budget: 617.078,24 €
  • Cost/m2: 674,40€/m2

Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas

The compression-decompression game makes its effect when changing space both longitudinally and transversely in the sequences: corridor / access-bathrooms / classroom / porch / garden-outside covered playground (across) or classroom / bedroom / classroom (longitudinal).

Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas

The orientation in space makes the classroom uncompressed glass cracks appear in the upper corners of South tightening diagonal space in the North to the ground facing the interior garden and covered with large windows. These fissures South controlled light will be colored (rainbow color gamut) in dynamic areas of the corridor or in the outside covered playground. Inside the classroom, these cracks will be light South colorless glass.

Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas

Versatility also arises in the operation of classrooms by level of education (two classrooms for children from 0-1 year with bedroom, two classrooms for children from 1-2 years with bedroom and three classrooms for children from 2-3 years without bedroom).

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It is proposed that all classrooms in the same level can raise the possibility of creating more space for group activities, show themselves to the spatial continuity of the upper parts of each room separated by glass.

Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas

Moreover, the idea that everything revolves around outside covered playground, and makes it as the heart of the educational center, which is linked by a continuous covered porch on the garden with all classrooms. Inside, the outside covered playground connects to the classrooms with the corridor on the South side. To the East lie the kitchen and dining areas, administration and gym closely linked to the corridor.

Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas

Outside, the use of white massive volumes makes the integration is adequate in El Chaparral, a district of Albolote that emerged as village of colonization in the 50s.

Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas

Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas

Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas

Image Courtesy Alejandro Muñoz Miranda

Image Courtesy Alejandro Muñoz Miranda

Image Courtesy Alejandro Muñoz Miranda

Image Courtesy Alejandro Muñoz Miranda

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