The Almost Invisible School in Salamanca, Spain by ABLM

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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.

The Almost Invisible School in Salamanca, Spain by ABLM arquitectos

May 7th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: ABLM arquitectos

In the metropolitan area of the city of Salamanca, the municipality of Villares de la Reina stands out for its transformation during the last decades as it has one of the industrial estates of the city. The changes have partly disfigured the scale and transformed the material landscape conditions.

The almost invisible school proposes a reflection on the domestic scale of this kind of infrastructures, where the little ones must find spaces that they can catch, and places with which they can dream.

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Architects: ABLM arquitectos (Arturo Blanco + Laura Martínez)
Project: The Almost Invisible School
Location: Salamanca, Spain
Photography: arq Colegio Villares
Client: Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Educación
Quantity Surveyor: Ángel García
Structure: Jacinto de la Riva
Mechanical Enginering: Fernando Aguado, Miguel Ángel Sanz
Contractor: Gómez Crespo Obras y Servicios S.L.
Area: 2.600 m².
Situation: Villares de la Reina (Salamanca)
Date: 2017/ 8

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The accessible plan from the outside, is a large ceramic plinth made up of vertical pieces with seven colors made by Toni Cumella, which symbolize, at the same time, the singularity and the equality of each boy and each girl, collecting and enclosing the scale of the courtyards and play areas.

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The upper areas are coated with a Stacbond^R composite aluminum finished mirror panel. These surfaces fade reflecting the sky and also the perimeter trees making this second level, necessary in the program, disappears like a magic game, and the school infrastructure recovers more domestic scales.

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Tags: Salamanca, Spain

Categories: Kindergarten, School

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