Nursery in La Pañoleta
The social environment of the building is characterized by an extremely contrasted situation, where social housing and high cost housing living on both sides of the street. There is a hermetic attitude of high-cost housing, because of the excessive extroversion of social housing tenants, who make the streets an extension of their homes.
This has generated a certain kind of tensions in the planning phase of the project, which has induced, in some way, an introverted character of the building, but the basic approach is to not turn away from that reality.
This configuration, together with the rectangular shape, very elongated, causes the appearance of a courtyards on the interior to organize the functions.
To attend the need of short time work execution, it was decided to adopt prefabricated large format building systems, precast concrete panels façade, plasterboard partitions, zinc roof, which together with the steel structure and composite floor slab, has reduced execution times enormously.
There are two fundamental aspects that link the building with the public promotion that generates it: 1. The search for a low maintenance and energy consumption, and 2. The possibility of using of the building out of school time as a meeting facility of potential neighborhood associations.
As the most of developing areas in the city, the plot was lightly forgotten. An excess of lots is been generated, unable to plan a gradual growth, so there is a kind of criticism about that in the materialization of the exterior. It’s like a petrification of that situation, which sometimes, is even longer than a building life.
