Benjamin Franklin International School, BFIS Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Catalan Education Architecture Photos
Benjamin Franklin International School Barcelona Building
21 October 2021
Architects: XG Arquitectura
Location: Distrito Sarrià Sant Gervasi, Barcelona, Catalunya, north east Spain

Photos by Simon Garcia | arqfoto
Benjamin Franklin International School Barcelona
Project description
The Middle School building is located as an extension of the Elementary building of the Benjamin Franklin International School Campus in the Sarrià Sant Gervasi neighborhood of Barcelona. These two buildings share a dividing wall and will be connected to each other by the corridor.

Volume aligned with the playground, has a ground floor, basement, three floors and an accessible roof for a playground. The ground floor is used almost entirely for the library and media library rooms. In the upper levels, the typological model proposed is compact with a central corridor, where classrooms and offices for teachers are placed on each side. The corridors, due to their size, and areas of relationship, function as an extension of the same classroom, being able to bring teaching to them, making teaching even more flexible. Laboratories and storages are located in the basement.
Facades
The facades are treated with the same brick the existing building, incorporating ceramic pieces in latticework to screen the entry of the sun in different common areas. With these materials used, we bet on the use of ce...