The agricultural school project in Orsonnens is in Switzerland, a place away from the Mediterranean, the area where TEd'A arquitectes have habitually developed their work.
The project changes the earthy materials used by TEd'A arquitectes in projects such as Jordi and Africa's home or the house of Llúis and Eulàlia, but in reality its way of working is the same, reading the environment and interpreting it intelligently.

The project of the new school building looks, not only the materials, it is also a reflection of the traditional models of agricultural farms in the area, its structural clarity and its interior spaces, organizing the program in the perimeter on a large central space of various heights .

The project, which has just been awarded with the FAD International 2018 (ex-aequo), was evaluated by the jury in the following terms:
 
"A compact and neutral volume takes as a model the traditional Swiss construction to project a contemporary look on the constructive system that defines it.The use of the structure not as a mere mechanical actor, but as a spatial structuring of the program, the circulations and the light give character to the interior of the volume The construction attends to the characteristics of each one of the used materials without losing their independence, but contributing the value generated by their coexistence: the weight reflected in the stack of the stereotomy of the stones and the lightness of the The tectonic assembly of the wood The classrooms are organized in a centrifugal way around a central void that acts as the building's agora, a void inhabited by a beautiful arboreal structure defined by a pillar composed of wood, a constructive element capable of explaining all the architectonic decisions of the work, example of its coherence."
 

Description of project by TEd'A arquitectes

A farm school (grangecole)

The proposal reads the environment and reinterprets it. The new school is born on the basis of the traditional farm models of this zone. These farms are characterized by a clear structural order that stars the inside, a honest construction and a neutral volume.

Structure is space

In these traditional models and in the new orsonnens school structure is the main character, it is the one who shapes the interior of the building. The clarity of the structural order helps us to solve the program and to characterize the inside.

Construction is form

The constructive honesty of the traditional models is also present in the new school building. Each of the constructive elements is expressed formally and independently from the rest.

Compactness and outdoor neutrality

The building compacts on part of the currently occupied by parking area, respecting the line of existing trees inside the plot and without encroaching on the area that is still nature beyond these trees.

Inner wealth

Against the outside neutrality of the volume, the inside of the building is complex. The interior space is vertical and multiplies visual relationships. A central pillar rises sculpturally to the roof, where this is drilled to let in the light.

The school around an empty

The school program is arranged around an empty space. Classrooms rotate around this central void. This space will be the meeting point for students, the point of social relations and the axis of movement. This will be a space full of life and where you will see everything that surrounds the school activity.

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Architects
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TEd'A arquitectes. Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol
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Collaborator Architecs
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Toni Ramis, Tomeu Mateu, Margherita Lurani, Teresa Piferrer (TEd’A arquitectes)
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Local Architecture Team. Management, planning and site management
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Rapin-Saiz Architectes
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Architecture Local team. Col·laboradors
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Mona Dorion, Valentin Rey, Camille Trechot, Nicolas Olivier (Rapin Saiz architectes)
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Consultants
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Civil Engineering Timber.- Ratio Bois Sàrl
Civil Engineering Concrete.- 2M Ingénierie Civile SA
Electrical Engineering.- Bureau d'études en électricité Bernard Bersier
CVS Engineering.- Sacao SA
Geometrician.- GéoSud SA Glâne
Acoustics Engineering.- Ecoacoustique
Façade Specialist.- X-Made - Material and envelope design
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Dates
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Competition.- 2014. First Prize. Project.- 2014-2016. Construction.- 2016-2017
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Area
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2,450.0 m²

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Budget
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7,700,000 CHF - € 6,624,058.37
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TEd'A arquitectes is a small studio located in Mallorca and consists for Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol.

Irene Pérez (1976). Architect for the ETSA Vallés (2001). Woodcock Oldemburg Workshop (1998), scholarship studies at the Faculty of Roma Tre (1999). Collaborates in the Pérez-Moré arquitectes (1999-2001) and Joan Pascual arquitecte (2001-2004) studies.

Jaume Mayol (1976). Architect by ETSA Vallés (2000). architect Doctor cum laude from the UPC, with the thesis School architecture Guillem Forteza (1917-1943), directed by Josep Quetglas. He collaborates in studies of Batlle i Roig (1999-2000) i RCR arquitectes (2000-2001). Assistant Professor of the Master "Architecture: Critical and project" UPC, 2003. Professor Fellow at the ETSA Vallés, 2003-2004. Reader professor credited as the AQU Catalonia (2011). Professor summer course "thousand pedreres". Professor of Projects and Design Studio in school IE Madrid (2011-2014).
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Published on: June 11, 2018
Cite: "Playing around the central pillar. School in Orsonnens by TED'A Arquitectes" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/playing-around-central-pillar-school-orsonnens-teda-arquitectes> ISSN 1139-6415
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