A Spine of Volumes

Project

Rafelbunyol School

Status

Competition

Type

School

Year

2010

Location

Rafelbunyol, Spain

Credits

Marin Marinović
Susana Iñarra
Alex Ayala

The school is conceived as a series of independent volumes: separate boxes at different heights, each holding its own use, with the nursery kept distinct from primary. The fragmentation has a practical purpose: every classroom reaches natural light and ventilation, with nothing buried deep inside a larger mass. Between the volumes, courtyards open up, visually linking the pieces into one whole. A single axis from the main entrance runs through the site as its backbone, ordering the volumes, parallel or perpendicular, into a coherent, walkable sequence.