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Architects: Martin Lejarraga Oficina de Arquitectura
- Year: 2010
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Text description provided by the architects. The land on which the school stands is located in a new, strategic growth area of the city, surrounded by public educational and cultural facilities: library, school, sports center. The project arose from a single comprehensive idea to design the entire block, from creating a new topography that is a reference in this area of expansion in Torre Pacheco, a new urban, cultural and leisure area for citizens, where public space, characterized by the folding of the terrain and the integration of different program, contains and protects buildings.
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The school is a break in the city, a parenthesis of services, education and leisure in which children carry out their daily activities in an attractive, safe and above all, different way. It is conceived as a box of surprises, where fantasy and imagination, knowledge, dreams, and color are concentrated, where everything has multiple possibilities and uses: we walk on a roof or on a wall, we visit the greenhouse, the aromatic garden, perhaps today gym class is in the sports track, or we play basketball in the heights.
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The project aims to solve in a simple, neat, and practical way the program raised, integrating the building with its environment, so that the architectural relationships between buildings make up the yards and different pavilions.
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Thus the center is designed with several isolated rooms depending on the program, arranged in different levels according to their uses, with the elementary school building on ground level, with a separate courtyard, and the primary school building on the first and second levels, yielding a large porch on the ground floor associated to the courtyard.
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The main entrance to the school is through a square, where vehicles - cars and buses - have the space necessary to drop-off kids under the main entrance porch. The square has 2 exit roads, in order to avoid hindering urban traffic, and increases the safety of students upon arriving at the school.
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