Extension for the future. Children's school for the Lycée Français of Madrid by Alegría Zorrilla, Berta González and Des Clics et des Calques

ALE Estudio (Arquitectura Libre y Ética) was founded by Alegría Zorrilla in Madrid, in 2019. The founder has been promoting and developing architectural projects since 2007, in search of resolute solutions, from the deep respect for the environment and the social and physical integration in the environment.

In ALE study, the most suitable construction techniques are re-considered for each project, proposing innovative solutions and recovering systems of vernacular architecture. Focusing work on equipment, residential and rehabilitation projects and betting on collaborative housing projects (co-housing) that are considered a sustainable solution for the present and future of cities.

Alegría Zorrilla, is an architect from Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) in 2003, completing her training at the University of La Sapienza, in Rome in the year 2000. She completed the official Master in Advanced Architectural Projects of the ETSAM in 2009, collaborating with the ARKRIT Architectural Criticism Research Group. 

Before starting to work on his own, she collaborates for five years with the architects Álvaro Soto and Javier Maroto and for two years with Node 17 (Manuel Pérez) in Madrid. Between 2011 and 2018 she founded the azootea studio in the company of Berta González. Co-winner of the international contest for the Infant School of the French Lyceum in Madrid, selected for the CSAE 2021 awards. She is also part of the winning team of the contest in the second call Reinventing Cities. for the rehabilitation of the old Clesa factory.

Awards:
2020.- First prize in the international competition organized by C40, Reinventing Cities for the rehabilitation of the Clesa Factory in Madrid.
2015.- 1st Prize: International competition for the new Escuela Infantil and outdoor spaces for the Liceo Francés of Madrid and the Agencia para la Educación en el Extranjero (AEFE).

Berta González Salinero, is architect from Escuela Técnica de Arquitectura y Geodesia de Alcalá de Henares (E.T.S.A.G.). She made the official Master in Advanced Architectural Projects of the ETSAM in 2012, collaborating with the ARKRIT Architectural Criticism Research Group. Before starting to work on his own, she collaborates with the architects Burgos and Garrido (Madrid), “Solano Benítez, gabinete de arquitectura” (Asunción, Paraguay), Hellen & Hard A.S. (Stavanger, Norway) and Ángel Verdasco arquitectos (Madrid). Between 2011 and until 2018 she founded the azootea studio in the company of Alegría Zorrilla.

She has currently founded the b-ground studio. The main lines of research that she develops are around self-managed coohousing projects, school architecture, and systematization and semi-prefabrication processes of homes, of almost zero consumption, and construction processes of low environmental impact.

Awards:
2015.- 1st Prize: International competition for the new Escuela Infantil and outdoor spaces for the Liceo Francés of Madrid and the Agencia para la Educación en el Extranjero (AEFE).

Des Clics et des Calques, is a studio constituted by Camille Besuelle and Nathalie Couineau, both architects from the Paris-Belleville School (ENSAPB).

The studio exists since 2008 and focuses on the construction of equipment developed in the context of public tenders, but is also interested in intervening in the previous development of projects to collectively build programming through participation missions, prefiguration or of prototyping.

This particularity allowed them to receive in 2012, from the Ministry of Culture, the AJAP prize (Albums of Young Architects and Landscapers).