Figueres is like an orange peel. A residue, the rind of something that contains the instruction to break out again and set out the orange in his spherical dimension.
In a context of geometric obviousness, the complexity of the added to the country houses.
The traditional constructions. The country houses. Pieces are added, continuity is given to facades or volumes are arranged in transverse positions to close spaces, to take shelter from the wind, to produce spaces of privacy and control. The rule of this added is the time.
Figueras, contrary of other school projects that we have designed, is not only a building. It is the added of various buildings whose facades are in two streets and define two semi-open interior spaces: the playground of the older children and the playground of the younger children.
I propose to be very simple in the edition of this project. Not to sin from what we do so frequently that is to paint an idea. To construct an image of an idea that should be understand immediately and as a whole. The perimeter of this site and this project is so fragmented that necessarily is the result and the accumulation of buildings.
As the old country houses. The main house, the granaries, the warehouse for the farming implements, the farmyards, the stables.
Here the classrooms are in the main building and the pavilions are the dinning-room, the gymnasium and the children’s school.