Secondary School in Cabrils / Josep Val Ravell + Arnau Solé Simón

Secondary School in Cabrils / Josep Val Ravell + Arnau Solé Simón
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Cabrils, Spain
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2990
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Simon Garcia
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Geo Hidrol, La Covadonga, Parex-Group, Porosonic
  • Collaborators: J. Gabriel Dominguez, Sergi Castells, Raul Lucas
  • Structural Engineering: BOMA, AVAC - J. Pablo Rodriguez y Ignacio Vallet
  • Installations: Lluis J. Duart
  • Constructor: UTE Tarraco + Caler
  • Building Engineer: FPA Ferran Pelegrina i associats
  • City: Cabrils
  • Country: Spain
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Secondary School in Cabrils

The new Secondary School is located at the entrance to the town of Cabrils, very close to Barcelona. As you enter the village, it is the first of a series of facilities (school, sports center ...) located along the road following the riverbed.

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The sea and the mountain range parallel to the coast characterize an extremely urbanized and altered by man place. It is a boundary area between the fields and greenhouses that escaped urban development, and the villages, houses in row and sparsely inhabited housing estates that cover the lower part of the mountain, with the sea visible on the horizon.

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The building was designed to accommodate a very specific and strict functional programme, as well as the need to release as much free space as possible for the playground and to enable a future growth. With these premises was conceived a 100m long piece parallel to the access road to the village and to the stream that descends towards the sea. The difference between the two ends exceeds one floor height.

Hence, the first architectural decision is taken with the aim of a better integration of the school into the urban surroundings:

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The fragmentation of the volume. With a strategy of setbacks, the large volume it’s broken, introducing a vertical component and generating smaller planes closer to the scale of the nearby homes.

Site Plan

On the courtyard façade, according to what’s happening inside, the volume is broken in larger pieces of diferent materials.

Ground Floor

A white volume. It seemed appropriate to use white in order to highlight the different volumes that cast shadows on one another. Preserving this way a Mediterranean tradition of smooth white volumes bathed in sunlight that characterizes de zone.

1st Floor Plan

A coloured base. For technical reasons, such as resistance and durability, but also because of a dimension and proportions issue, the white volume needed a base. 

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The yellow base becomes the focal point.

2nd Floor Plan

The yellow base becomes the focal point. Highlighting the building entrance and as a gateway to the village, the coloured base rises in high until covering the entire façade. The yellow base becomes the head and most singular part of the building.

Section

Highlighting the building entrance and as a gateway to the village, the coloured base rises in high until covering the entire façade. The yellow base becomes the head and most singular part of the building.

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Project location

Address:Av. de les Escoles, 10, 08348 Cabrils, Barcelona, España

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Cite: "Secondary School in Cabrils / Josep Val Ravell + Arnau Solé Simón" [Escuela Secundaria en Cabrils / Josep Val Ravell + Arnau Solé Simón] 22 Jan 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/887327/secondary-school-in-cabrils-josep-val-ravell-plus-arnau-sole-simon> ISSN 0719-8884

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巴塞罗那中学,建筑的亮黄=青年的活力 / Josep Val Ravell + Arnau Solé Simón

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