Ave Maria-Patxi Larrainzar

Avenida Marcelo Celayeta, Pamplona, Spain

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Ave Maria-Patxi Larrainzar

Avenida Marcelo Celayeta, Pamplona, Spain

Firm

Taller Básico De Arquitectura

Type

Educational › Elementary School

YEAR

2007

Project
Description
The current educational center
and its most recent expansion seem to announce a first solution for a new
expansion. A U-shaped volume – a scheme justified in finding the best light for
teaching – attached symmetrically to the last building, could solve the need
for a playground that the program also required. This accepted U-shaped piece
opts, however, for going against such an announcement, turning to stand facing
El Salvador Church, one of the most urban buildings of the place. This makes
one of the wings of the U-shape behave as a connective element, allowing these
units to be used by both buildings. In this shift, the new extension of the
Public School for Primary Education Ave Maria-Patxi Larrainzar shows its
smoother skin where the new courtyard opens up and creates a place to play,
encouraging the sensitive development of the child, communication with peers
and the relationship with the city itself. Its most urban facet chooses to
fold, as a screen, transforming its entire intimacy into an origami game that
helps develop a new public space.
Description
of the proposed urban integration
The plot had an irregular shape
and a height difference of 180 cm between its farthest points. The urban and
topographic premises determine a U-shaped building that generates a playground
in its interior. This space is open to the existing square that El Salvador
Church now shares with the new school.
There are
two distinct entrances, access for parents and teachers is from the pedestrian
street, and the main access for children is through the square shared with El
Salvador Church, from where a ramp leads to the school playground. The most
urban facade reconstructs the street, it tries to become more friendly through
a play of folds in its great length, and it fills the public space with light.
Program
and constraints
The program for Ave Maria School
comprises six kindergarten classrooms, fourteen primary school classrooms,
computer room, psychomotor room, multipurpose room, music room, staff room,
administration area, secretary and management, gym, locker rooms, storage
rooms, concierge, facilities, first aid, and library.
General
construction characteristics
The structure consists of concrete planar frames,
except at the roof level, where the structure is metallic. The facades are made
of a white silicon monolayer on double hollow brick, an air chamber partly
occupied by thermal insulation, clad with a tiled plinth up to the height of
the doors. The roof of the building is designed with a sandwich panel. The
woodwork on the openings of the facades are resolved mostly with casement
windows with anodized aluminum, the blinds are also aluminum painted white. The
interior woodwork is composed mostly of medium density fiberboard with white
formica finish.
The roofs, continuous and suspended, are plasterboard
with a hidden substructure. The floors are resolved through white micrograin
terrazzo tiles.
DEVELOPER
DEPARTAMENTO DE EDUCACIÓN Y CULTURA DEL GOBIERNO DE NAVARRA
BUILDING COMPANY
CONSTRUCCIONES VALLE ULZAMA S.L.
COLABORATING COMPANIES
GE&ASOCIADOS, INGENIEROS
CONSULTORES S.L.
AUTORS
TALLER BÁSICO DE ARQUITECTURA JAVIER PÉREZ HERRERAS Fco. JAVIER QUINTANA DE UÑA
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
JAVIER PÉREZ HERRERAS Fco. JAVIER QUINTANA DE UÑA EDURNE PÉREZ DÍAZ DE ARCAYA
COLABORATING ARCHITECTS
EDURNE
PÉREZ DÍAZ DE ARCAYA (PROJECT DIRECTOR ARCHITECT), MANUEL ANTÓN MARTÍNEZ (ARCHITECT),
JOSEBA ARANBURU BARRENETXEA (ARCHITECT), VERÓNICA
QUINTANILLA CRESPO (ARCHITECT) Y XABIER ILUNDAIN MADURGA (ARCHITECT)