Nursery School in Haro, SPAIN by taller básico de arquitectura

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Geography as origin

The preschool is built on the urban limit of Haro. A place without buildings, marked with road lines, announces its immediate apparition. The strong slope delineates and discovers for us the possibility of an architecture of a geographic origin.

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• Architects: taller básico de arquitectura, Javier Pérez-Herreras and Fco. Javier Quintana de Uña
• Project: Nursery School in Haro
• Location: Haro, SPAIN
• Photography: Pedro Pegenaute
• COLABORATING ARCHITECTS: Edurne Pérez Diaz de Arcaya, Manuel Antón Martínez, Xabier Ilundáin Madurga, Joseba Aramburu Barrenetxea, David Santamaria Ozcoidi and Laura Elvira Tejedor
• CLIENTS: Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Tourism of the Government of La Rioja
• CONSTRUCTION YEAR: October 2011 – December 2013
• BUILT AREA: 2.490 m2

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Mineral structures

We conceive an architecture dictated by crystallographic laws. The day care center is conceived as a great rock, a visible structure for that buildingless city. The building is erected from an array of horizontal and vertical concrete planes that construe in their organization the spatial structure of the center.

Image Courtesy © Pedro Pegenaute

Image Courtesy © Pedro Pegenaute

Hollowness as habitation

The strong slope of the site crystallizes into two great horizontal planes. The lower one is anchored in the original topography, hosting maintenance and service facilities. The higher one gives room to the day care center’s own use, elevating them from the existing topography. Both planes are intersected with a display of four great diagonal walls that organize the school program. From this intersection the day care center unfolds as a continuity of ample hollows that reveal their interior as a new architectural geography.

Image Courtesy © Pedro Pegenaute

Image Courtesy © Pedro Pegenaute

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Image Courtesy © taller básico de arquitectura

Image Courtesy © taller básico de arquitectura

Image Courtesy © taller básico de arquitectura

Tags: Haro, Spain

Category: School

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