FIRST PRIZE IN COMPETITION
Awards: LUIGI COSENZA 2003 (selectec).
SWISS ARCHITECTURAL AWARD 2009. (selectec).
COAM AWARD 2003. (honorauble mention).
Site: Campus de Montepríncipe, Alcorcón (Madrid).
Date: First stage 2001-2002.
Second stage 2009-2010
Architects: Alejandro Vírseda Aizpún.
Miguel Angel Cámara Mamolar.
José Ignacio Carnicero (partner)
Collaborators: Fernando Arenas Prieto.
Inés Delgado Juárez.
Client: Fundación San Pablo C.E.U.
Building engineer: Manuel Iglesias Velasco.
Services: ead AT Ingenieros S.L.
Estructure: ETESA Ingeniería de Estructuras S.L.
Construction company: A.C.S. S.A.
Our experience as users of a School of Architecture made us rethink the most used ways to design a building like this. In the university is easy to find the students around the lobby and cafeteria, as well as in the classrooms. Meeting places, therefore, need to be considered as places as important as the classrooms.
Brainstorming, exhibit and conference points are the real core of the university, and are developed in a more dynamic learning environment, different from the classrooms.