On the kindergarten project in Pamplona, the value of the site is the main constraint, without it, this project “Nursery School”  would not be easy to understand.  The plot, result of a reallocation project, is located on the edge of a suburb in Pamplona. The geometry of such plot had practically a triangular shape, where two of its sides had the nature of dividing walls corresponding to the rear of a row of buildings,  while the third side, and with the longest length, was orientated to the south, open to the square where the access is built.
Photography: Pedro Pegenaute
Due to the extreme conditions of the plot and the program we thought that it was an exercise where firstly the common sense and the logic should be imposed in relation with the layout of the uses of the building and the priority of exploiting the sunlight prior than any other approach of highest complexity or exuberance. Photography: Pedro Pegenaute
For that reason, the proposal was not adjusted to an isolated construction in an aggressive location; we understood it as the plinth of the preexisting buildings. For that reason, we understood that the project should keep those values and to act as such. In that way was confirmed, as an independent cell, which perimeter of changing concrete is placed and integrated on the plinth of this dividing wall. From this design, it was generated, with architectural mechanisms the different manners to light and to ventilate....