Nursery in Haro

On the outskirt of the Spanish city of Haro, taller básico de arquitectura designed on the site's slope a nursery school conceived as a rock itself.

taller basico de aquitectura, Nursery in Haro
The preschool is built on the urban limit of Haro.
A place without buildings, marked with road lines, announces its immediate apparition. The strong slope delineates and discovers the possibility of an architecture of a geographic origin.
taller basico de aquitectura, Nursery in Haro
taller basico de aquitectura, Nursery in Haro
The architects conceived an architecture dictated by crystallographic laws. The day care center is conceived as a great rock, a visible structure for that "buildingless" city. The building is erected from an array of horizontal and vertical concrete planes that construe in their organization the spatial structure of the center.
The strong slope of the site crystallizes into two great horizontal planes. The lower one is anchored in the original topography, hosting maintenance and service facilities. The higher one gives room to the day care center's own use, elevating them from the existing topography.
taller basico de aquitectura, Nursery in Haro
taller basico de aquitectura, Nursery in Haro
Both planes are intersected with a display of four great diagonal walls that organize the school program. From this intersection the day care center unfolds as a continuity of ample hollows that reveal their interior as a new architectural geography.


Nursery in Haro, La Rioja, Spain
Client:
Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Tourism of the Government of La Rioja
Architect: taller básico de arquitectura / Javier Pérez-Herreras and Fco. Javier Quintana de Uña
Collaborators: Edurne Pérez Diaz de Arcaya, Manuel Antón Martínez, Xabier Ilundáin Madurga, Joseba Aramburu Barrenetxea, David Santamaria Ozcoidi and Laura Elvira Tejedor
Area: 2.490 sqm
Completion: 2013

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