This project involves the construction of a school complex with two sections, each with five classrooms, for boys and girls separately. In addition to these ten classrooms, an assembly hall was designed to also be used as a gymnasium in an intermediate area, which could be used interchangeably by both sections. There is also a nursery next to the girls' section. Each section consists of a hall, an administrative area (headmaster's office, secretary's office, staff room, changing rooms and toilets), and five classrooms, all of which have an extension to the outside with a porch, which allows for easy expansion of the classroom area, as well as comfortable outdoor teaching. In this way, the school allows for outdoor teaching. The nursery consists of a single room, to which a small waiting hall, a toilet and a kitchenette for preparing meals and baby food and for the hygienic care of the children are attached. Given that the plot of land available was sufficiently large, it was decided from the outset to design the project on a single floor. This layout has the enormous advantages of eliminating stairs and allowing immediate and direct contact from the classrooms to the garden. However, it has the disadvantage of the abundance of space allocated to horizontal circulation, which, although it could have been partly avoided by eliminating corridors and using intermediate halls for more educational purposes, is a difficult and complicated solution when there are so many classrooms and, as in this case, a specific orientation is required. The entire structure of the building is based on a grid of reinforced concrete columns and beams with exposed brick walls. The roof is a succession of Catalan-style flat roofs. In general, the concrete has been left exposed in its original state, as it comes out of the formwork. Apart from concrete and brick, only glazed ceramic tiles have been used to cover the parapets. The flooring is white hydraulic mosaic with black speckles, while the exterior flooring is concrete (‘pedregalet’). The steps are also made of concrete. The exterior enclosure alternates between prefabricated concrete elements and brick walls. Above the exterior areas of the classrooms is a porch with a metal structure and a ‘bruch’ roof. Outdoor circulation from each hall to the assembly hall and from the entrances to each of the halls takes place under a porch, also with a metal structure and a corrugated fibre cement roof. With the exception of two small green flowerbeds, the landscaping is reserved exclusively for strategically placed groups of trees to provide significant areas of shade. The visual separation between the boys' and girls' areas has been achieved with a sculpture by Moisès Villèlia on a green flowerbed behind the glass window of the girls' section lobby. It is an extraordinarily interesting sculpture based on vertical fibre cement tube elements.
This project is a continuation of the experience previously developed in Terrassa’s three school groups. The difference is that, in this case, thanks to the extension of the site, the school group has been able to be developed on a single floor. This disposition allows to eliminate the stairs and to establish a direct contact from the classrooms with the garden.
The programme is developed in two completely independent sections, one with five classrooms for boys and the other one with five classrooms for girls. Each section has its own playground, which is accessed directly from all classrooms. As a filter, each classroom has a heather porch and an outside space to hold classes in the open air. The school is also equipped with an assembly room that can be converted into a gym and a nursery school.
The entire structure of the building is a reinforced concrete grid with exposed brick walls. The landscaping basically consists of masses of trees strategically placed to provide shade and privacy. The visual separation between boys and girls is produced by a sculpture by Moisès Villèlia based on vertical fiber cement elements.