montessori school

competition

paterna, valencia / 2016

montessori school

competition

paterna, valencia / 2016

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The space par excellence of the Montessori school is the pine forest. The contact with nature is paramount in learning: try to know it, enjoy it, love it, respect it and learn from it. The exterior spaces are not only spaces for expansion and recreation but learning spaces, natural extension of the classrooms. But if we focus on its architecture, the classroom is the main space (it is the “home” of the student) and is conceived as a small village in itself. The school aspires to be a micro-world, a complex and diverse social space at the scale of the child who, little by little, is able to discover new complexities through rich spatial structures, as if it were a small city, with its houses, its streets, its squares, its gardens and its public buildings. The physical contexts determine the senses enormously and, therefore, the spaces condition the experiences (and the memories).

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client : imagine montessori school
head architects : marta orts – carlos trullenque
assitant architects : ana villalba, javier garcía, jesús santamans

The space par excellence of the Montessori school is the pine forest. The contact with nature is paramount in learning: try to know it, enjoy it, love it, respect it and learn from it. The exterior spaces are not only spaces for expansion and recreation but learning spaces, natural extension of the classrooms. But if we focus on its architecture, the classroom is the main space (it is the “home” of the student) and is conceived as a small village in itself. The school aspires to be a micro-world, a complex and diverse social space at the scale of the child who, little by little, is able to discover new complexities through rich spatial structures, as if it were a small city, with its houses, its streets, its squares, its gardens and its public buildings. The physical contexts determine the senses enormously and, therefore, the spaces condition the experiences (and the memories).

client : imagine montessori school
head architects : marta orts – carlos trullenque
assitant architects : ana villalba, javier garcía, jesús santamans