Intervallum to connect eras. Expansion of the Professional Training Center by PALENZVELA
21/07/2021.
[Brenes - Seville] Spain
metalocus, PAULA ARIAS
metalocus, PAULA ARIAS
The expansion of the Jacarandá Vocational Training Institute has been projected by the studio "PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura", directed by the architect Antonio Palenzuela, in the town of Brenes, in the Sevillian Guadalquivir valley.
The extension of the center is carried out on a small plot next to the original building, facing south and towards the great valley of the Guadalquivir.
The extension of the center is carried out on a small plot next to the original building, facing south and towards the great valley of the Guadalquivir.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Location plan. Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura.
Ground floor plan. Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura.
First floor plan. Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura.
Second floor plan. Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura.
Sectional plan. Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura.
North elevation plan. Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura.
South elevation plan. Expansion of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura
Axonometry 01. Extension of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura.
Axonometry 02. Extension of the Professional Training Center in Seville by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura.
Architecture firm "PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura" designed the expansion of the center complying with a strict and extensive program consisting of classrooms and workshops that will communicate with the pre-existing building.
To communicate the exterior space with the interior, it projects an intervallum that opens onto the façade, tiled with bright yellow tiles and that functions as a connecting axis between the two buildings.
The interior distribution of the building is developed on both sides of the corridor, which is projected as the main circulation line. The interior is dominated by blue tiling and exposed concrete slabs, giving the space a functional and work environment.
To communicate the exterior space with the interior, it projects an intervallum that opens onto the façade, tiled with bright yellow tiles and that functions as a connecting axis between the two buildings.
The interior distribution of the building is developed on both sides of the corridor, which is projected as the main circulation line. The interior is dominated by blue tiling and exposed concrete slabs, giving the space a functional and work environment.
Description of project by PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura
The Jacaranda secondary school is located in the town of Brenes, immersed in the fertile plain of the Guadalquivir River in Seville, in a wide landscape characterised by a flat topography surrounded by cultivated areas. The extension of the centre is on a small interstitial plot, between a wing of the existing building and its covered sports hall, facing south, facing the green fertile plain.
The new construction was conceived with a great deal of compactness, as it was required to meet a strict programme of needs composed of classrooms and workshops that were perfectly communicated with the existing building. From the connection of the new construction and the pre-existence of the party wall of the old building, the intervallum arises, a new transition space that dialogues between the exterior space of the courtyard and the existing construction. In the same way this interstitial space is related to the playground, as it will also be the entrance to the new extension.
The classrooms are distributed on both sides of the central corridor that connects with the main corridor of the existing building on its three floors. The transition from the existing building to the new construction is made without fanfare, with an austere, serene architectural language that is in keeping with the existing building, which is the work of the architects Albala & Cordero at the end of the 1990s. The interiors will be dominated by cobalt blue tiling and exposed concrete floors and ceilings, recreating a functional and fresh atmosphere for the daily use of the teaching activity.
The exterior is dominated by the spatial opening or intervallum that opens onto the façade as a wide entrance that acts as a link between the play area to the south and the garden to the north. This space is made of glazed tiles in a bright and vibrant yellow colour. The sparkles and reflections evoke clear reminiscences of Seville's tile tradition. The explosion of light and colour becomes the connecting node of the intervention with respect to the parent building and stands as the generating axis of the intervention.
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Architects
PALENZVELA. Taller de Arquitectura.- Antonio Palenzuela Navarro.
Project team
José Gabriel Bayo, Antonio J. García Amat.
Client
Junta de Andalucia. Ministry of Education.
Area
Built area.- 548,20sqm.
Dates
Construction completion year.- 2020.
Location
Brenes, Seville, Spain.
Photography
Antonio Palenzuela. PALENZVELA
Antonio Palenzuela Navarro is an Architect from the University of Granada (2006), a Master in Heritage and Architecture from the University of Seville (2014), and a master in Representation and Design of Engineering and Architecture from the University of Malaga (2022). From his childhood and adolescence he was impregnated by the exuberance of the Alhambra in Granada, the color of Barcelona's modernism and the timeless monumentality of Rome.
He has spent more than 20 years studying and developing an architecture committed to the place where he was founded, limiting his area of action to the Mediterranean area, particularly in the south and southeast of the Iberian Peninsula.
Hence the Mediterranean nature of its proposal, which is essentially based on a philosophy of space conception whose method consists of approaching the buildings and their environment as a whole and where everything is architecture, establishing bridges of union between the existing and the new to be built, between the ancient and the modern.
Any scale of action, whether a school, a house or a small rehabilitation, goes back to a constant set of concerns with functionality, volume, surface, proportion, geometry, light, color and atmosphere.
Some of the awards and recognitions it has received in recent years are: the ARCO 2017-2018 award in the category of Equipment for the Extension of the La Mojonera Cemetery, awarded by the Official College of Architects of Almería COAAL, the inclusion of some of his works in the House of Architecture dependent on the General Directorate of Architecture of MITMA or 1st prizes in competitions organized by the Department of Education of the Junta de Andalucía.
He has spent more than 20 years studying and developing an architecture committed to the place where he was founded, limiting his area of action to the Mediterranean area, particularly in the south and southeast of the Iberian Peninsula.
Hence the Mediterranean nature of its proposal, which is essentially based on a philosophy of space conception whose method consists of approaching the buildings and their environment as a whole and where everything is architecture, establishing bridges of union between the existing and the new to be built, between the ancient and the modern.
Any scale of action, whether a school, a house or a small rehabilitation, goes back to a constant set of concerns with functionality, volume, surface, proportion, geometry, light, color and atmosphere.
Some of the awards and recognitions it has received in recent years are: the ARCO 2017-2018 award in the category of Equipment for the Extension of the La Mojonera Cemetery, awarded by the Official College of Architects of Almería COAAL, the inclusion of some of his works in the House of Architecture dependent on the General Directorate of Architecture of MITMA or 1st prizes in competitions organized by the Department of Education of the Junta de Andalucía.
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