Les Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons + Joseán Vilar Pons

Les Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons  + Joseán Vilar Pons - Facade, GlassLes Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons  + Joseán Vilar Pons - Windows, Facade, ConcreteLes Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons  + Joseán Vilar Pons - FacadeLes Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons  + Joseán Vilar Pons - FacadeLes Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons  + Joseán Vilar Pons - More Images+ 8

Picassent, Spain

Text description provided by the architects. The cooperative Escola Les Carollines needs to grow so they decide to create a new building to hold the playground and a new dinning room for the entire school. 

Les Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons  + Joseán Vilar Pons - Windows, Facade, Concrete
© Fernando Alda 

The construction must be placed in a 2,900 m2 parcel that has been used as a garden. Its complex geometry has to solve a program that would fill up it’s entire surface. In order to maximize the free space, uses must be superposed, which means a conflict with child’s mobility.

plans

It´s proposed a building that coils up in the parcel adopting a spiral shape that solves the connection between levels, making the most of the natural slope of the land to stay semi-buried.

Les Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons  + Joseán Vilar Pons - Facade
© Fernando Alda 

This operation gives us the possibility to use the roof as a garden and a part of the schoolyard as well. The spiral born in the ground, turns defining a patio, and keeps on rising until it becomes a belvedere projected towards the landscape. The rusted concrete walls help to integrate the piece in the environment.

Les Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons  + Joseán Vilar Pons - Facade
© Fernando Alda 

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Project location

Address:C/ Morera 5, urb Lloma de la Verge, Picassent (Valencia), Spain

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Cite: "Les Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons + Joseán Vilar Pons" 03 Jul 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/67107/les-carolines-playground-and-dinning-room-pablo-ribera-pons-josean-vilar-pons> ISSN 0719-8884

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