This Nursery School plays between two worlds of adults and children, adapting the scales, experiences, color ... creating conflicting sensations to enhance children's imagination.

Description of the project by AMO arquitectos

In “Alice in Wonderland”, Lewis Carrol, take us back to the duality of the adult-child world and its opposite feelings: imagination-reality, game-work, fun-responsability, etc… The nursery school change into Alice’s world, where everything are feelings, experiences, scale games, color, everything perceived through the innocent kids eyes.

The building is conceived as a continuum space built by pieces, this pieces are placed in a way that the whole space is divided. This way the architects wanted to create a transversal relationship between the two worlds, interior and exterior, enhancing the ambiguity between them, from where everything is a game untill where the education is required, they can enjoy happily all day long.

The school entrance, a roofed open space, not only introduce the visitor into the building but glimpse how the building is going to be, so as it was a game the children go inside the nursery school, establishing at the same time a clear difference between public and private space.The skin of the building is a continuous crease that solves questions as orientation, lighting and air circulation, the covered exterior spaces turn into a new extension. Under the big roof, we find all the pieces that conforms the space, the lighting and the air are solved by a mixture of flats which we find throughout the building. The children, in the aim of activating the visual sensations, go through the different interior-exterior areas with height variations. This sking is completed with a big courtyard common to all classrooms and works as a playground area that interacts with the rest of the topographical land of the plot.

Outwardly the classrooms are associated to the big garden that makes up the remainder of the plot showed as a signed of how this kind of extention, shleterd from the sun and the rain across the covered porch.Therefore, the building, is perceived from the surroundings as a big floating roof under which a whole word of colours and textures are shown inviting the children to dive into a entertaining world.

Text.- Ángel Luis Rocamora Ruiz and Alexandre Marcos Olivares

 CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-

Architects.- Alexandre Marcos Olivares (AMO arquitectura) and Ángel Luis Rocamora Ruiz.
Other partners.- Luis Sanz (graphic design), Miguel Candela (consulting engineering).
Project name.- Nursery School 'La Monsina'.
Location.- Callosa de Segura (Alicante) Spain.
Dates.- 2012 (project), 2013 (construction).

Site area.- 4,333 sqm.
Building area.- 1,088.17 sqm.
Max. height.- 4 meters.
Use.- Educational.
Client.- Constructora Callosina.
Builder.- Construcciones GALYSAN, S.L.

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Alexander Marcos Olivares, 2005 degree in Arquitectura Superior specialties building and town planning by the technical colleges of Architecture universidad politécnica de valencia (ETSAV-UPV), Urbanism specialty in Faculdade de Arquitectura do Porto (FAUP). In 2003-2004 he gets a Beca de Colaboración in the Department of Urban (Derecho Urbanístico) of the ETSAV. In 2002, he received the award for the  12º Concurso Ibérico de Soluciones Constructivas Pladur to a access pavilion to the Güell Crypt.

In 2006-07 works professionally in the architectural "Silvestre Navarro Arquitectos SL" in the design and development of various architectural projects in the residential and multi-family house.

Since 2007 is established as an independent professional, individually and collaborating with other professionals, forms its own architecture, and in 2013 founded the company AMO slp architectural office , where he develops architectural works in the fields of rehabilitation, public building, residential building private and landscaping.

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Ángel Luis Rocamora Ruiz, in February 1999 concluded studies Arquitecto Técnico in the TFC , with work: Estudio Histórico y Constructivo de “LA CASA ESTUDIO DEL PINTOR JOSÉ MARÍA LÓPEZ MEZQUITA”. He studied  Artes Aplicadas a la Escultura 2000-01. In July 2007 studies concluded Arquitecto Superior in the TFC , with the work "Enosección: directrices para la elaboración de vino y enoturismo en las cooperativas del Medio Vinalopó”.

In 2012 completed Master studies in sustainable architecture and urbanism in the TFM, in paper " La práctica arquitectónica del acontecimiento temporal".

He has worked for 9 years with architects Carmen Pérez Molpecerez, Javier Gironella Pallarés and Efigenio Giménez García development projects and project managers. Since 2000 works as a freelancer, and author.

In 2010/2011 , 2012/13 and 2013/14 was appointed Colaborador Honorifico in the degree of Architecture , Departamento de Expresión Gráfica y Cartográfica de la Universidad de Alicante, for the subjects of Proyecto Arquitectónicos I-II and Análisis de Formas I (AIGI).

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Published on: October 30, 2013
Cite: "Nursery School in Callosa" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/nursery-school-callosa> ISSN 1139-6415
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