The project was conceived with the intention of improving and maintaining the image of the current building, of considerable dignity. The proposal tends, rather than a transfiguration of the building, to a better use of the surface.
The reform project has two intentions:
On the one hand, to arrange the different parts of the program to obtain maximum profitability of the space, solve the building's vertical communications by adapting them to fire regulations and, on the other hand, to solve the volumetric problems of the building, consequence of the latest additions.
Thus, parts of the building are removed, improving its relationship with the immediate surroundings of the Hypostyle Hall, causing an exit at the level of the room of the columns, tangent to the retaining wall, enriching in this way the routes through the park.
The fundamental operation of the project consists in the transfer of the current entrance door, thus facing the new staircase and elevator. This makes it possible for us to have the entire free floor of the wing facing south and west.
The attic of one wing of the building is converted into a multipurpose room by removing the cover and turning it into a roof.
The dining room and kitchens are on the ground floor with their corresponding services, the patio and concierge changing rooms.
The three kindergarten classrooms are on the mezzanine floor, and they have a separate staircase from the general one, which at the same time leads to the gymnasium. This is located in the old greenhouse. The administrative offices are located in the west wing of this floor.
On the first floor, there are three classrooms and the library in the south-facing wing and a workshop classroom, two tutorials and a department in the west wing. The toilets are located at the ends of the floors.
On the second floor there are three classrooms in the south wing and two classrooms in the west wing.
On the third floor there is a multipurpose room in the west wing. Above it, on a higher level, the boiler room and the space for the elevator machinery are found.
We have tried to control the holes and windows of the building, repeating on some occasions the existing ones and introducing a new type of window, which in the form of a large lattice, provides light and ventilation to the new dependencies, mainly those of services.
Complete refurbishment of the school. The new volumes for the staircase and elevator stand out from the ensemble copied from Gaudí's in the same building. The greenhouse, which had been the home of the Güell family, becomes the gymnasium. Small rhomboidal windows ventilate, illuminate and improve the relationship with the Hypostyle Hall of Park Güell.
