Library + School Farm, Collado Villalba, Madrid
Projects 3
Delivered: 2004 Spring
Tutors: Sergio de Miguel + Mónica Alberola
TU: Capitel
This new
project for the downtown Collado Villalba is conceived as a whole programme.
The council brief is to fill voids in the urban context with equipments for the
inhabitants and tourists: a school-farm and a car park in the village boundary
and a library in the main square, in front of the town-hall.
The
strategy is the same in all the development: to produce the design with a
crooked ribbon which could act as walls, book stacks, spaces or fences.
The
school-farm is located in a huge plot in the North of the village. The ribbon’s
design begins with the car park, following with the keeper house, then the
fence and finally the elongated single- storey building with all the facilities
for children and instructors: rooms, wardrobes, classrooms, craft workshops,
canteen and kitchen. This chain of uses stands in spiral shape. It prompts the
circulation and wraps the inner space for harvesting, farming and playing.
The library
is made with another ribbon, trying to wrap the intern plot in the square and
leaving inner courtyards. In this design, the ribbon houses the book stacks,
stretching out into three storeys. The staircase flushed with the inner
courtyard and joining the storeys is also made with the same stacks.
The access
is located in the back street, going through a tinny garden, looking to the
town hall square. The ground floor houses facilities for the village like a
conference room and a newspaper library. Two storeys above comprise study spaces
with desks inserted in the ribbon among the book stacks and administrative
offices. Regarding to the ribbon, the mostly glazed elevations change with the
movement of the books by users. The light drawn into by these elevations also
suffers changes and sifts.
