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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. Escuela Infantil En Vereda De Estudiantes in Leganés, Madrid by Rueda Pizarro ArquitectosApril 25th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Rueda Pizarro Arquitectos To think about a nursery school involves attending a complex duality of scales. And involves to create a space where live very different perceptions together: teachers and children who are developing their cognitive abilities. Therefore, few buildings have the capacity to be formative spaces.  Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán
 Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán Parallelism with the famous novel “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is immediate. It transports us to a world of mixed feelings where imagination and reality, work and play, fun and responsibility are combined. A world of sensations, experiences, sets of scales and color are perceived by the eyes of children, coexisting with adults, making necessary to use a dual scale adapted to each of them. But not only the scale must be adapted, also the space perception. Due to this reason, we consider essential thinking from inside the building.  Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán First of all, the central space works as a public space covered where you can access to all classrooms. It is a smooth space with items that enhance visual and tactile perception: the circular courtyard, that introduces outside to inside; the deep cover skylights larger than 2 meters of height that introduce a world of color; the access to the classrooms with partitions unfolded and deep windows that work as a individual spaces and allow to the children enter inside. These are resourcesthat enhance haptic space against a purely visual space.  Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán Therefore there is an absence of elevations and we choose the circular figure where prevailing a space conceived topologically.Thisdecision also allowed to adapt the area required to a triangular plot very difficult to utilize. And this allowed another key resource: to resolve a bad orientation where the school itself cast shadow on the playground .  Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán Due to this, we placed the playground on the deck. The access becomes a play to introduce children in a vertical passage that ascends slowly, a ramp that runs along the perimeter of exempt cylinder that contains school facilities.  Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán The layout of the program inside the school attends to circulation and orientation criteria. The classrooms are located in the southeast to get the most sunlight. The administration, offices and facilities are located in the northwest where movement and access are independent. The main space is the great central hall, a covered meeting space for children’s events that allows direct access to all classrooms.  Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán  Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán  Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán  Image Courtesy Rueda Pizarro  Image Courtesy Rueda Pizarro  Image Courtesy Rueda Pizarro  Image Courtesy Rueda Pizarro  Image Courtesy Rueda Pizarro
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