Spanish architect
Alejandro
Munoz Miranda’s kindergarten in Granada is designed for children up
to three years old and has windows in rainbow colours.
It is built around a central courtyard onto which all the classrooms
open.
Communal spaces such as corridors are scattered with multicoloured
light while the windows in classrooms are colourless.
Photographs are by Fernando
Alda.
The following information is from Alejandro Muñoz Miranda:
EDUCATIONAL CENTER EN EL CHAPARRAL, ALBOLOTE (GRANADA)
The project is designed as a variable section of wall and ceiling
that involves compressing and decompressing the space accommodates.
The change of section depending of the uses (corridor /
access-bathrooms / classroom / porch (outside covered corridor) / garden
and outside covered playground), the sun’s movement and the
longitudinal slope of the plot are responsible to design interior spaces
that open to garden and outside covered playground.
The compression-decompression game makes its effect when changing
space both longitudinally and transversely in the sequences: corridor /
access-bathrooms / classroom / porch / garden-outside covered playground
(across) or classroom / bedroom / classroom (longitudinal).
The orientation in space makes the classroom uncompressed glass
cracks appear in the upper corners of South tightening diagonal space in
the North to the ground facing the interior garden and covered with
large windows.
These fissures South controlled light will be colored (rainbow color
gamut) in dynamic areas of the corridor or in the outside covered
playground. Inside the classroom, these cracks will be light South
colorless glass.
Versatility also arises in the operation of classrooms by level of
education (two classrooms for children from 0-1 year with bedroom, two
classrooms for children from 1-2 years with bedroom and three classrooms
for children from 2-3 years without bedroom).
It is proposed that all classrooms in the same level can raise the
possibility of creating more space for group activities, show themselves
to the spatial continuity of the upper parts of each room separated by
glass.
Moreover, the idea that everything revolves around outside covered
playground, and makes it as the heart of the educational center, which
is linked by a continuous covered porch on the garden with all
classrooms. Inside, the outside covered playground connects to the
classrooms with the corridor on the South side. To the East lie the
kitchen and dining areas, administration and gym closely linked to the
corridor.
Outside, the use of white massive volumes makes the integration is
adequate in El Chaparral, a district of Albolote that emerged as village
of colonization in the 50s.
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