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Remodelling of "Brains School"

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romera y ruiz arquitectos
Located on the southern face of a 17,120 sq. meter ravine known as Barranco de Telde, the uneven land plot is traversed by the ravine Barranquillo de la Angostura and features an elongated concave configuration typical of the nature of the ground where it sits. The project specifically addresses the pre-existing buildings and surrounding areas:

- “La casona”, Module A, is a traditional-style house with a patio, closely related to the foregoing agricultural character of the plot. This structure is included in the local historic heritage register. It has been renovated and refurbished.
- Module B is a linear element located between ravines at the bottom end of the land plot. It has been refurbished and connected to an exterior access area, thus making it part of the ensemble and the exterior areas.
- On the other edge and opposite these structures, the existing single-storey building (Module C) has been extended into a two-storey construction. The design provides a combination of shapes and reflections where the stairway and the rest of little connectiing elements the have been introduced play a significant role.

On top of the challenge presented by the variety and diverstiy of the constructions together with the land morphology of the site, there was the need to fulfil the educational purpose of the project. The complex itself forms a typical landscape of the middle-mountain region of the island, featuring sloped gardens with native plants such as aeonium, verodes and tabaibas. Different stratifications, ramps and slopes connected by pieces that also provide spaces where users can spend their break times. Designed as if they were works or art, those spaces are what gives this school its unique character.

The project attended to the constructional and landscape diversity with specific solutions to the actions carried out on each of the buildings, particularly on the pieces that connect the different constructions and generate new transitional spaces that provide better cohesiveness, improve accessibility and allow for alternative routes and compartmentalisation, in case free spaces and patios are needed for any of the buildings. Transitional and living spaces have been determined, and then defined living micro-spaces for gathering and enjoyment.

This school of secondary and baccalaureate education encourages human coexistence, and civic interaction between individuals requires specific conditions and a proper atmosphere. It was therefore decided to invest in the development of spaces that can be used by the students to meet by the stairs, with its sense of continuity, as an orange skin coming off in one spiraled piece; chat at the passageway leading to the lab; have a conversation in the shade; dance in the playground; play; sit at the stairway connecting the different levels; rest upon the stone benches filled with earth...users will surely figure out additional uses for these transitional spaces.

Credits

 Telde
 España
 Colegio Brains S.L.
 09/2017
 17200 mq
 romera y ruiz arquitectos
 Pedro Romera García, Ángela Ruíz Martínez, Carlota Ardanaz Petit, Yudit Barreto Martín, Paula Cabrera Fry, Marco Díaz Bertrana-Sánchez, Constantino Juan Gonzalvo Ortiz, José M. López Cabrera, Rosalba Santana González, José L. Vecino Morales
 Pérez Moreno S.L.
 Simón García Asencio

Curriculum

To play is to learn, and it is also to teach, and to create, and to find, and to tempt fate, and to befriend, and to experience, and to remember, and to represent, and to superimpose, and to compete, and to enjoy, and to surprise, and to amaze, and to communicate, and to feel, and to think, and to live, and to win and lose, and to satisfy, and to travel, and to collect, and to direct, and to dream, and to venture, and to risk, and to talk, and to fantasize, and to trust, and to confess, and to confirm, and to expose, and to practise, and to know, and to entertain, and to suggest, and to seduce, and to plot, and to draw, and to build, and, above all, to project and imagine. There are also negative definitions, the least, in which the action of playing refers to deceiving, to cheat, to waste time, to take advantage, to be disloyal, but even these negative actions require the knowledge, skills, and intelligence of the malicious person who is practising them. Juan Luis Trillo de Leyva

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