Serenity in the new spaces of the civic center Pedralonga, by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos

The down association Coruña shares spaces in the new civic center designed by Emilio Rodriguez Blanco, in Pedralonga, A Coruña.

Exterior view. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos generates a square juxtaposing a new volume to the rehabilitation of a teaching center. This volume houses a large multipurpose room that completes the use and common program.

Project description by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos

The project starts from a small disused educational center that grows considerably with new volumes and spaces. Although there are common conditions in both uses, the new center completes the needs program with new spaces not available in the previous equipment, especially a large multipurpose room.

The primitive pavilion is completed incorporating new pieces that conform a building with plant in "U", so that they appear two wings articulated by a zonacentral of reception that easily orders the operation of the center.

In the existing pavilion, the lecture hall program is organized, in the new pavilion the large multipurpose room is located, and the center is located in the entrance and administration.
This arrangement generates a courtyard protected by the building itself, where you can develop outdoor activities that complete the center's offer.

In addition to the classrooms, multipurpose room and administrative area, as a care center, the necessary dining spaces, nursing room, administrative areas, computer rooms and adapted toilets meet.

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Multipurpose room. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Garden. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Playground view. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Playground. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Stairs multipurpose room. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Interior view multipurpose room. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Outside view. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

View to the playground. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Stairs multipurpose room. Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Interior view. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Ramp. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Both Volume junction. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Educational center. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Detail. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Entrance. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Night view. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos. Photograph © Ana Amado

Axonometry. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos.

Ground floor. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos.

First floor. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos.

Elevation and section. Down Association Coruña and Civic Center by Rodriguez Blanco Arquitectos.

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Architect

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Emilio Rodriguez Blanco, José Luis Martínez Raído

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Collaborator

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Anton Pena Auge and Borja Martinez Raido

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Quantity surveyor

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Julio Jorge Duran

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Developer

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ASSOCIATION DOWN SYNDROME CORUÑA.- Manuel Álvarez Esmorís (President)

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Contractor

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COPASA

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Area

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1092,99 m²

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Construction cost

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€ 799.000

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September 2015.

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Photograph

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Ana Amado.

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Situation

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Street de Pedralonga, 15009 A Coruña.

Arquitectos Rodriguez Blanco

Emilio Rodríguez Blanco. Architect by the ETSA of La Coruña (1999). Erasmus in the TU Graz, ILAUD in the IUAV Venice. He has collaborated with Coop-Himmelblau, ACXT Idom, or Irisarri-Piñera.He combines both academic and professional work in his career. Teaching as Professor at the ETSAC and at the Landscape Architecture Master Juana de Vega, and also as visiting Professor at the Fakultät Architektur OTH Regensburg.

Has received various awards for his architecture, among others:

Selected Enor Architecture Prizes, COAG Award for Architecture Category Equipment, Mention Prize of Architecture of Galicia, COAG Award ed Architecture Category Rehabilitation, Prize Juana de Vega de Arquitectura.

Published on: October 12, 2017

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