Kindergarten Bambú
200best ES
Gonzalo Mardones
2019
Type
Nursery Home
Tags
learning environments, spaces of care , wood structures, 200Best
Visitability
Not allowed
Description
The Bambú Kindergarten is located in Las Condes, in the foothills of Santiago de Chile. A first consideration was to resolve that the Kindergarten did not violate the neighbor’s privacy and on the other hand that the children did not deconcentrate from their games and studies with the surrounding buildings. The strategy was to excavate the land taking the lowest elevation point, so that the building was partially buried, isolated from the neighboring buildings and open to the distant landscape, hills, mountain range and sky; also to push the building towards the edges of the land, freeing the playground in the center, generating a system of classrooms around interior courtyards that allow clearly defined spaces and that are articulated in front of the two corridors that frame the large central courtyard. The project proposes a path through a portico made up of several clearly differentiated volumes. A cylindrical volume, one square, others refer to the rectangle, to the diagonal, so that being in the central courtyard, these bodies appear and the magnitude of the great and the small of the near and the far also appear. We chose, as in all our works, for a tone, for a material in order to unify everything. Beams and columns of laminated pine and walls of pine wood planks. The geometry of the volumes is composed of basic shapes, easily recognizable by children (cubes, triangles, squares and cylinders of light), favoring the use of vertical, diagonal and horizontal light in each of its volumes. We wanted the building to be very silent in its forms in order to transmit the golden light of the pine wood. In the central courtyard a sculpture made by Federico Assler was installed especially for the Kindergarten, which has a strong symbolic meaning for the educational project. (Description provided by Gonzalo Mardones)