Alberto Campo Baeza

A pavilion of 8 classrooms and a small gymnasium was needed to complete an existing public school.

A prismatic volume is elaborated on rectangle of 10 x 38 meters, containing a gymnasium on its lowest floor, and four classrooms on each of the two upper floors. The diagram employed is lineal, the corridor to the north, and classrooms to the south.

On the ground floor the entire width of the building corresponds with that of the gym, which, at the same time, has a greater ceiling height. This double height also provides the opportunity to underline the spaciality of the main hall, through a simple operation of diagonal Light, placing a high northern window and an identical low southern window, through which the floor extends into a small courtyard.

The holes perforating the white prism contrast the large classroom windows of the southern facade, with the small and deep punctures which illuminate and ventilate the corridors of the northern facade. The large glassblock areas flush with the north, east and west facades, which illuminate the gymnasium, further these contrasts.