in-cubaciones
The project consists of the expansion of a nursery school, which needed to increase its facilities with two new classrooms and a bathroom. As in the original building, the two new classrooms are made up of two independent cube-shaped volumes, which face south to maximise sunlight.
Like a sheet covering everything, a flat concrete surface unifies the spaces between the two white volumes and the existing building, thus accommodating the new entrances and service areas. Seeking flexibility in the programme, the bathroom and changing room are located between the two classrooms, allowing them to be connected.
As in a children’s game, the intervention arises from the strategy of scattering cubes across the floor plan, which generates interstitial spaces of connection between them. This is what happens in the new entrance, where a transitional space is created between the exterior and interior of the building. Each of the cubes that articulate the project is understood as a solid from which part of its material is removed. In this way, the void is highlighted, that is, the habitable space within it is sought, which in this case are the spaces intended for teaching use. All this is achieved through a constant search for natural light, understanding it as one of the materials with which this space is constructed.
