“La Mercè” Nursery School

Client

Lleida City Council Municipal Institute of Education

Location

Lleida

Year

2009

Surface

637,15 m²

“The work of architects to provide a context for the individual to realize himself, and the work of artists to give signals and images to the phases of this realization, are found in a single act, full of those inconsistencies and apparent irrelevancies of each moment, but full of life”. Allison + Peter Smithson. Memory Houston secondary school (1949-1954). Norfolk. UK. Children’s schools are multi-generational community facilities whose function is the socio-cultural dynamization of the environment in which they are inserted, through activity programs and services carried out with the participation of the users framed in an area of the city.

The functional organization of the center revolves around the hierarchy of spaces according to its program. So, it can be differentiated between the spaces destined to services, those that contain programs that do not tend to vary temporarily and those spaces of multi-purpose use that can be used for different functions and whose fundamental characteristic is that of convertibility.

The building wants to look outside and be introverted at the same time. To guarantee this balance, it submits to a rigid -almost classic- order that extends to all the aspects that configure it, from the massive enclosures to the layout of the structure. This plot plays a very important role in the articulation of the sections of the building and its connectors.

It is committed to innovation in the adoption of measures for energy efficiency and seeking the minimum energy consumption. In this sense, mechanisms are introduced for passive air conditioning (low-enthalpy geothermal energy, with earth-air exchange)-

“La Mercè” Nursery School

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