New Waldorf-Steiner School in Bellaterra, Barcelona.
The main goal of the project is to provide a contemporary spatial expression of the Waldorf-Steiner pedagogy in a Mediterranean context.
The new school complex consists of six buildings, including all educational phases, from kindergarten to high-school, totalling 2.000m2 of built surface on a 12.000m2 site.
Five buildings are recycled –they are dismantled, transported from the plots that the school previously occupied, and carefully reconstructed in a new configuration on the new site.
The newly-designed kindergarten and the common spaces building, with 1.000m2 of built surface, doubles the previous surface of the school. Its architecture is based on the spatial ideas of alcoves and frames, which imply that the usually flat façade evolves into an inhabited three-dimensional space.
The school is organized along a rambla –the Mediterranean equivalent of a highstreet. The classrooms become small houses, and the school complex a small village on a hill.
