The team of architects Arturo Sanz & Carmel Gradolí, in collaboration with Carmen Martínez Gregori architects, develops this extension of the Escola Gavina which is located close to a 1980's pre-existing building designed by the architect Manuel Portaceli.

The multiporpose character of the hall designed by Arturo Sanz & Carmel Gradolí can host different events, in addition to its primary use as a sports court.

With regard to photography, once again our usual Mariela Apollonio gives us the opportunity to bring you this graphic work so interesting.

Description of the project by Arturo Sanz & Carmel Gradolí

The expansion of educational facilities of the "Escola Gavina" involving the construction of a pavilion which can host all type of mass events (meetings, parties, theatrical and musical performances, etc.) in addition to regular use as sports ground. The program comes complete with one music and one psychomotor rooms.

The existing building dates from 1980 and was designed by architect Manuel Portaceli. It is a quadrangular prism with the portal frame marking composition. The architects partially empty the volume while they preserve the rest of the structure, a solution reminiscent of the work of Terragni in Como (Italy). The composition of the new building reinterprets the original keys with different constructive solutions: quadrangular prism structure with concrete walls solving the recesses (corresponding with access) with overhangs of these walls without permanence of the structure.

The projected building is located in the free part of the plot, in the western part, and they redesign of the access and circulation to generate a new central wooded area located between the original building and the one that they project.

Text.- Arturo Sanz & Carmel Gradolí.

CREDITS.-

Architects.- Arturo Sanz & Carmel Gradolí.
In collaboration with.- Carmen Martínez Gregori (architect).
Collaborators.- VALTER, Valenciana de estructuras (structural engineering), Pablo Gómez Sanchez (installations), Francisco Vallet Ferrer (quantity surveyor).
Program.- Multipurpose pavilion “Escola Gavina”.
Location.- Partida La Martina. Picanya, Valencia, Spain.
Dates.- 2011 (project), 2013-2014 (construction).
Promoter.- Escola Gavina Cooperativa.

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Carmel Gradolí Martínez (Valencia, 1961). Architect by E.T.S. Architecture of Valencia in the specialty of Building in 1986 and the specialty of Urbanism in 1988. Master in "Techniques of Intervention in Architectural Heritage" by the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 1992. Heritage Inspector of Territorial Services of the Department of Culture, Education and Science (1992-1994).

Arturo Sanz Martínez (Terual, 1963). Architect by E.T.S. Architecture of Valencia in the specialty of Urbanism in 1988. Selected by the City of Valencia (Department of Culture) in the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Turin 1997). Professor in the Master in "Industrialization and Prefabrication" in San Pablo CEU courses 2010 and 2011.
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Mariela Apollonio (Valencia) develops her professional work in the field of architectural photography since 2008 as Fotógrafa de arquitectura. She has been merging her artistic vision with her professional work from the very beginning of her career. This particular approach has influenced her way of understanding architectural photography assuming that this profession defines a way of thinking that sheds some sense of reality. Without compromising the author's vision, she also believes that it's impossible not to interpret architecture from subjectivity and thought.

She studied Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), where she also completed a Master of Photography, Art and Technique. She has been a guest professor in the Master of Artistic Production in the same University.

Mariela has worked for several architectural offices in Spain, Germany and Italy, and her work has been published worldwide in specialized journals and exhibited in both national and international galleries and art fairs. Fotógrafa de arquitectura lives and works halfway between Valencia and Berlin.

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Arturo Sanz Martínez was born in Montalbán (Teruel) in 1963. He obtained his title of Superior Architect by the E.T.S. of architecture of Valencia in the specialty of Urbanism in 1988. He was selected by the City Council of Valencia (Department of Culture) in the Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean (Turin 1997). He taught at the Master in "Industrialization and Prefabrication" at CEU San Pablo, courses 2010 and 2011.
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