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1929
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Sant Jordi Primary School
MBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, David Mackay, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina
The school responds to an experimental teaching programme in which personalised activities take on great importance. The complex is organised around a central, double-height space, intended for expressive development, and access to the various common dependencies on the ground floor takes place through different routes so that each work area has its own identity. On the first floor there are the classrooms, although the circulation spaces are also understood as work and learning places. The covered floor houses the sports court, and the terraces and paths, including the two steel bridges formed by the bleachers, respond to their use as a place of recreation. The structure is solved with a reticular forging, capable of being cut at any point, and supported by steel pillars that go unnoticed between the enclosures.1967 - 1969
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Apartments for Teachers at Sant Jordi Infant and Primary School (Phase 1)
MBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, David Mackay, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina
Building of 12 homes (110 m2) for the teachers of the "Sant Jordi" school, in the town of Pineda. You enter through a porticoed space that connects the street with a rear semi-public courtyard. From this space you can access the two homes located on this floor. Through a staircase with continuous sections, which divides the building transversally, you go up to the second floor, where a street open to the mountain allows you to enter the 5 duplex houses that occupy this floor and the one below. From this open corridor, and via two metal stairs superimposed on the façade as an independent object, you enter the 5 duplex homes that occupy the two upper floors. Thanks to this circulation scheme, it has been possible to eliminate the stairwell, which is too appropriate for an urban typology at odds with the character of the area. This makes the access to each home unique, offering a richer and more diverse and more integrated itinerary to a rural landscape that is not yet fully urbanised and to a different type of life than that proposed in dense urban centres.1968 - 1969