Menjarosa Extension School in Torrevieja, Spain – with a blackboard as a wall by Dooa Arquitecturas
November 15th, 2010 - Posted in Architecture
Spanish studio Dooa Arquitecturas has completed an extension to a school in Torrevieja, Spain, with the blackboard as a wall. Called Menjarosa, the purpose of this project is to minimize the loss of the playing board space.The walls separating the cafeteria from the classroom and beyond magenta aluminum-mesh fence sections together old and new school. The following information from the architect: MENJAROSA (Virgen del Carmen school canteen, Torrevieja, Alicante, SPAIN). Do you remember the unforgettable moments of playing with your friends at school in the yard? This is exactly there, in the most amusing of the school, where the need to build a canteen project. The new attempt to minimize the loss of playing surface, the expansion of local children, able to interact with them. A great wall that encloses the canteen and separate them from the classroom into a large chalkboard where children can draw.The existing trees have been saved and they seem to penetrate into the building with only a glass wall barrier that allows the children to have Lunch is almost in contact with the park vegetation. A native fragrant plants where both the trees were removed because they interfere with new construction that filter out a meeting between the courts and access to school services. The “telemagenta” skin of aluminum expanded mesh fence turned into an ancient school, the canteen, field, kitchen and a fence at the same time, turning them into elements of the integration of both the old and new buildings where they fuse together. Photographs are by Pepe Pascual Fuentes. Via…
