The architects Alegría Zorrilla, Berta González and the Des Clics et des Calques studio have won the competition for the new children's school for Lycée Français of Madrid.

The Lycée Français of Madrid is a French international school whose function is French teaching Abroad. It consists of two campuses: the Conde de Orgaz campus, where the project will take place and the Saint-Exupéry campus.
This extension carried out by Alegría Zorrilla, Berta González and Des Clics et des Calques studio, is located in the southeast area of Lycée Français of Madrid.

The project is characterized by following the same pattern as the current Lycée Français, with special emphasis on its sustainability. For this, it takes full advantage of natural light, with the use of  the glass and ceramic lattices. At the same time, interior courtyards favor cross ventilation within the entire school.
 

Description of project by Alegría ZorrillaBerta González and Des Clics et des Calques studio

The construction of the new children's school for the Lycée Français of Madrid is a 5000 m² building with 21 classrooms for children between 3 and 6 years old. The main objective of the Lycée Français of Madrid and the French Education Agency abroad to achieve the French environmental certificate HQE. From the beginning the project approach is austere and sustainable.

The new children's school is organized through three volumes, two of them, which contains the classrooms, are oriented north-south to optimize natural light. The third volume, which contains all common equipment, however, is oriented east-west to generate two patios for different ages. This volume is protected from the western solder by means of a ceramic lattice skin that sifts the natural light inlet. A scheme of twin classrooms that share a bathroom and a patio is proposed, which also improves the ventilation and lighting of the classrooms.

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Project Team
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ALÉ estudio.- B-ground.- Des Cilcs et des Calques.
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Collaborators
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Structures.- Jofemar S.L. Quantity surveyor.- Alarifes S.L. E.M.P.- JG Ingenieros.
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Client
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Lycée Français of Madrid.
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Area
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4,500 m²
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Budget
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€ 4,800,000
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Competition date
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2015
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Plaza del Liceo 1, Madrid, Spain.
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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).
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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).
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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).
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Published on: April 5, 2020
Cite: "Extension for the future. Children's school for the Lycée Français of Madrid by Alegría Zorrilla, Berta González and Des Clics et des Calques" METALOCUS. Accessed
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