Architects:Encaixe Arquitectura,Prieto + Patiño

Area:756m²

Year:2018

Photographs:Héctor Santos-Díez,Manuel González

Manufacturers:AutoDesk,ELEVATE,Acira Metal,Cypecad,Ecoforest,Europerfil,Sutega

Design Team:Juan Ignacio Prieto López, Faustino Patiño Cambeiro, Estefanía Grandal Leirós

Clients:Consorcio Galego de Servizios de Igualdade e Benestar, Concello de Mos

Engineering:Joaquín Pampillón

Collaborators:Sancho Páramo Cerqueira, Xiana Alonso, Beatriz Queijo

Country:Spain

Text description provided by the architects. In a complex and irregular plot a circle imposes its pure geometry. The nursery school is placed inside the circle, while two parallelepipeds determine the entrances. This recognizable geometry tries to dialogue with an environment full of contrasts: industrial estate, rural constructions, crops and pilgrims walking through the Camino de Santiago. The school faces south in a sequence of large windows and skylights protected from direct radiation in the summer by wide cantilevers and, simultaneously, allowing it in the colder months.

The project uses materials and systems of industrial architecture and orientates windows and skylights to the south but protected by wide cantilevers. A project tries to understand and organize the different realities than come together in its environment.

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Address:Pontevedra, Spain