University Schools Huelva

Description

Campus del Carmen is marked out by two avenues:  Fuerzas Armadas to the south, former Access to Hulva, where Carmen barracks are situated and now restored as University buildings, and Andalucia Avenue to the north, up to where the Campus has been extended.Standing by the side of the dual carriageway, a peaceful and transparent shape, easily recognizable, seeks order in the excessively unserttled and repetitive landscape of thr u-shaped bloks of flats of the other side.The building, on the north limit of the Campus del Carmen, functions as the univerity façade to the new Access road to the city. Its transparency expresses the open carácter of this institution, the six storeys proposed by the special plan are disguised by the large glass paneling at three levels which contain the top romos floor and conceals the machinery. From the outside of this level we can observe the transit of people along two doublé-height passages, moved back one from the other.The height dictated by the special plan is only accorded to the department área, avoiding the use of the lift by the dtudents in the resr of the building. Besides, the setting of two schols in the same building, which nevertheless want to be identified as different by their users, has generated a unitary building with two different volumes. Four orthogonal lower bodies are attached to the main volumen: the two-storey library with Reading room on two floors joined by doublé-height space, attched to the glass and light-woodwork façade plan; further east, the classrooms of one of the schools, on thr floors, and between both bodies, a quiet patio favours reading activities. Parallel to the former, the classrooms of the other schools and, finally the assenbly hall and the cafetería in the lower body. The grown and first floors of the linear building are permeable: the apparently barrier-looking building allows the transit of people between Avenida de Andalucía and the rest of the Campus.The setting-up of a mortar Wall all along the north side, ten metres away from the building, acts as a sound barrier, keeps privacy and créates an uncertain visión of the volumen. The Wall is crowned by a plant slope, facing the carriageway, which softens its visión, and leaning on it, a passage built like a bridge, which allows the Access to the first floor hall and, underneath, through an exit, to the ground floor.(Description provided by the architects)