Preschool in Haro / Taller Básico de Arquitectura

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Haro, Spain
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  26802 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Pedro Pegenaute
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Celenit, Cinca, Cortizo, Gerflor, La Veneciana
  • Authors: Javier Pérez Herreras, Javier Quintana de Uña
  • Design Team: Edurne Pérez Diaz de Arcaya, Manuel Antón Martínez, Xabier Ilundáin Madurga, Joseba Aramburu Barrenetxea, David Santamaria Ozcoidi and Laura Elvira Tejedor
  • Technical Architect: Carlos Munilla Orera
  • Structural Calculation: FS estructuras
  • Installation Engineer: GE& asociados
  • City: Haro
  • Country: Spain
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© Pedro Pegenaute

The architecture of a Hollow-Rock
Geography as origin
The preschool is built on the urban limit of Haro. A place without buildings, marked with road lines, announces its immediate apparition. The strong slope delineates and discovers for us the possibility of an architecture of a geographic origin.

Preschool in Haro / Taller Básico de Arquitectura - Interior Photography
© Pedro Pegenaute
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Elevation and section 01
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Mineral structures
We conceive an architecture dictated by crystallographic laws. The day care center is conceived as a great rock, a visible structure for that buildingless city.  The building is erected from an array of horizontal and vertical concrete planes that construe in their organization the spatial structure of the center. 

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Plan
Preschool in Haro / Taller Básico de Arquitectura - Interior Photography
© Pedro Pegenaute

Hollowness as habitation
The strong slope of the site crystallizes into two great horizontal planes. The lower one is anchored in the original topography, hosting maintenance and service facilities. The higher one gives room to the day care center's own use, elevating them from the existing topography. Both planes are intersected with a display of four great diagonal walls that organize the school program. From this intersection the day care center unfolds as a continuity of ample hollows that reveal their interior as a new architectural geography.

Preschool in Haro / Taller Básico de Arquitectura - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Pedro Pegenaute
Preschool in Haro / Taller Básico de Arquitectura - Exterior Photography
© Pedro Pegenaute

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Address:Gonzalo de Berceo Street, Haro. La Rioja, Spain

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Cite: "Preschool in Haro / Taller Básico de Arquitectura" [Escuela Infantil en Haro / Taller Básico de Arquitectura] 21 Jan 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/909702/preschool-in-haro-taller-basico-de-arquitectura> ISSN 0719-8884

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