We are being asked to build a nursery school by renovating and extending the ground floor of an existing farmhouse. On the first floor, there is also a multipurpose room with independent access. The terraced situation of the plot forces us to access the school by going down a double ramp and allows us to access the multipurpose room with a walkway at ground level. We plan the project as a "link" between the existing building and the new construction. The new building is differentiated into strips that penetrate depending on the program. Internally, the plant works as a large central street that runs through the classrooms and collects spaces for common use, such as the psychomotor area and the dining room. The classrooms are connected to each other. The centres of changing rooms and bathrooms are placed between them to delimit them and share services. The materials used provide a neutral and austere environment, voluntarily avoiding the excess of permanent stimuli. The movement, the ornament and the colour will be provided in abundance by the little new users and their caretakers, who will be able to renew them repeatedly, and in a much more effective way than we can.

01. Bases. El concurs plantejava la construcció de dos edificis de programes i escales ben diferents. D'una banda un equipament docent destinat a re-ubicar i millorar l'Escola d'Art i Disseny de la ciutat, i de l'altra un pavelló de fires que substituís el ja existent al propi solar, actualment molt deteriorat. Dos emplaçaments contigus, però separats per un vial. 02. Primera Fase. Ha comprés la construcció del primer edifici, el de l’Escola d’Art i Disseny. Aquest inclou en planta baixa una sala polivalent que forma part del programa del segon edifici a construir, el pavelló de fires, actualment en fase de projecte. 03. Contaminació. No entenem el projecte com a dos edificis aïllats. Proposem una intervenció que afavoreixi una lectura conjunta. Trobem el verb "contaminar" per explicar el que busquem; barrejar l'un en l'altre, trobar un llenguatge comú. En planta i en secció. En la forma i en el fons. Les dimensions de l'auditori fixen les llums de la fira. Els espais més petits de la fira prenen les dimensions de les aules de l'escola, i a l'inrevés. 04. Franges. Els edificis s’organitzen per franges de 9m. d'amplada, i d’alçades variables [+4m/+8m/+12m]. Aquestes franges s’agrupen i llisquen en funció del programa, de l’entorn i dels límits edificables. La nova topografía abarca des de l'escala més humana dels porxos i les peces baixes, fins a l'escala dels lluernaris i l'edificació en alçada. 05. Sistema. El projecte resultant és més una manera de construir al lloc, que no pas una resposta definitiva. Unes regles de joc que permeten sistematitzar el possibles canvis de programa o la construcció per fases. Paràmetres fixes que atorguen flexibilitat al resultat final. 06. En procés. El vent de mestral, la geologia del delta i… la manca de finançament, entre d'altres, són ara els factors determinants per continuar. Noves dades que ens fan redibuixar un i altre cop el projecte, amb la certesa de que continua sent el mateix.

The aim of the project is basically the refurbishment and extension of the Sant Jordi School (listed building, designed by Oriol Bohigas) to bring it up to date and complement the current classrooms and increase the number of pupils. Specifically, it is planned to enlarge six classrooms, a dining room, the library and the room for the AMPA. The current dining room, kitchen and AMPA, located in the school, will be relocated within the extension and the space freed up will be used basically for psychomotricity classrooms and classrooms for the splitting of pupils. In addition, a series of refurbishment works are being carried out at the connection points between the new and existing parts of the school. Normal building maintenance tasks are not included. There is no action with respect to the structure and roof of the existing buildings. The connection between the kindergarten building and the new construction is made through a canopy, which is used as a connecting element and at the same time protects the children, and which forces the current basketball court to be slightly displaced in a westerly direction. The proposal should consider a possible segregation of the classroom and its independent use from the school, as well as a possible extension of an upper floor. The extension, located on a site adjoining the south side of the existing building, consists of two sections connected transversally with a third one (passageway - hall). In order to meet the different thermal, sunlight and ventilation requirements of the new building and to provide a unified image, a perimeter gallery was built around the entire building made of concrete blocks, the size of the gallery being adjusted according to the orientation. The blocks that make up the façade are combined in different positions to adjust the light. Vertical slats on the west façade (classrooms and library) / Lattice blocks on the east and west façades / Solid blocks on windowsills and blind sections. Inside the classrooms and corridors, exposed concrete elements (recoverable coffers and solid slabs) are combined with warmer wood and cork finishes.