PRESCHOOL AND RESIDENCE
DATE: february 2014
LOCATION: Valladolid, Spain
PROGRAM: residential, educational
AREA: 3346 sq.m.
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ACCESS VIEW FROM PLAZA
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COMPOSITION PROCESS DIAGRAM
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MODULAR SPACE COMPOSITION
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RESIDENCE SPACE CROSSVIEW
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PRESCHOOL PLAN AND VIEWS
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PRESCHOOL PATIO SPACE
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RESIDENCE PLAN AND VIEWS
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RESIDENCE SPACE CROSSVIEW
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GARDENING AND SECTION DETAILS
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CROSS-VIEW FROM PATIO TO PLAZA
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PANORAMIC SECTION VIEW FROM SOUTH
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SECTION DETAIL
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FLOATING RESIDENTIAL CUBES ON TOP FLOORS
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CONSTRUCTION AND MONTAGE DIAGRAM
This is a diploma project developed for a real location in a mid-tier Spanish city, on a tiny corner plot in front of a cozy urban plaza. As for the program, it should be a mixed-use building with a public community center and a preschool for 0 to 6 year-olds on lower floors and residential apartments on the top levels.
The adopted composition with modular cubic shapes extended over the back concrete canvas wall has a practical purpose of regularizing the plot geometry and keeping the building up to the fire safety codes with the concrete part, and giving the building a recognizable and playful look with the floating cubes effect, which also improve the costs and construction process by the virtue of being prefabricated.
The abundant terrace spaces and the the patio contain important amounts of greenery to keep the living spaces fresh, and to give the preschool children an opportunity of playing in somewhat open green spaces within the city.