Article source: David Closes Arquitecte

Abstract

The school, with a planned gross floor area of about 700 m2, had to be placed on a very small site, of just 630 m2, situated beyond on an existing sports court that was intended as the school’s playground. The surroundings were formed by a football ground to the west and, to the east, by a sector of single-family dwellings separated from the school plot by an alleyway of just three meters wide.

Image Courtesy © José Hevia

• Architects: David Closes Arquitecte
• Project: Montbou public school
• Location: Santa Margarida de Montbui, Barcelona, Spain
• Photography: José Hevia
• Area: 767 m2
• Client:  Catalan Government
• Collaborators: Ricard Torres (architect), Miquel Àngel Sala /Robert Brufau i Associats (structures consultants), Toni Vila (industrial engineer), Dídac Dalmau (construction engineer), José Hevia (fotògraf)
• Date of project: 1999-2002
• Execution: 2003-2004
• Builder: Paysa
• Cost: 711.150 eur (vat included)