Technical Data

ARCHITECTS/AUTHORS:
MEDIOMUNDO Arquitectos. Marta Pelegrín + Fernando Pérez.

PROJECT:
CEIP Burguillos
DATE:
2013
LOCATION:
Burguillos, Seville
CATEGORY:
Educational
AREA:
4300 m2
PROGRAMME:
Primary School
DEVELOPER:
Agencia Pública Andaluza de Educación, Conserjería de Educación.
ADVISOR:
TEDECO ingenieros, Elite ingeniería
COLLABORATORS:
Bernardette Souts, José Ramón Guerra

“Among School Children” is a Poem by William Butler Yeats (1989) that portrays a beautiful school past, thought as reference during the design process, to be updated.

From the analysis of the topographic, urbanistic and orientation conditions of the plot, the proposed solution is adopted in order to achieve:

  • Autonomy in independence of operation of the different functional units (primary, child, administration and common uses).
  • Creation of identity and relationship with the landscape, trying to make the building contribute to the relationship of scales between urban and rural landscape.

Following these objectives and taking into account the existence of a sloping slope towards the west end of the plot that limits the possibilities of using it, a building is proposed organized in two sectors and ordered primarily by an axis parallel to the east façade. While linear organizations, a more “porous” and fragmented treatment is proposed to achieve a scale more in line with the ages and type of activities of children in children..