This school canteen in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo was prefabricated in a workshop 5 kilometres from the website so that it could be created inside of the client’s tight 90-day deadline .
Guillén Lafuerza Dining Hall was made by Spanish architect Miguel Ángel García-Pola Vallejo for a primary college in Oviedo, which required a new kitchen, dining hall, storage space and toilets prior to the start of the new college yr.
“The quick was to design and style an vitality-productive creating to property these functions, with a decreased spending budget and speedy execution of just 90 days,” García-Pola Vallejo told Dezeen.
To do this, he created the 226-square-metre building as 4 modules, which were prefabricated in a workshop and transported to the school on the back of a truck, the place they had been craned into position and joined with each other. The prefabrication took 45 days, and the on-site construction took another 45 days.
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The single-storey Guillén Lafuerza Dining Hall is clad in silver-coloured sheet metal with a ridged surface, and characteristics curved edges to give it a softer appearance.
The ridged surface and curved edges also allow water to run off the side of the building naturally, without the need to have for gutters, in order to minimize the want for upkeep.
“From a building point of view, sheet metal is an affordable, low-upkeep material, providing quick assembly,” said García-Pola Vallejo. “And from a design and style point of view, it can be utilized on the walls and roof to produce a steady outer skin, which emphasises the building’s sculptural top quality.”
Each ends of the constructing are finished in a contrasting yellow colour, which is continued inside across all the surfaces.
“I chose a single colour to develop a unitary enclosure, so that the developing offers a protective surroundings for the youngsters,” García-Pola Vallejo stated. “It temporarily isolates them from the outdoors, and especially from homework.”
“Yellow was utilized since it is a warm colour that contrasts nicely with the grey of the concrete, the steel cladding, and the green prairie landscape of the Asturias region.”
The open-prepare layout features a kitchen at one finish, a dining hall in the middle, and storage and toilets at the other end. Resilient and lower-maintenance materials were utilized all through, with polyurethane resin flooring, and sandwich panels for the walls, produced from Formica laminate and rock-wool insulation.
Windows had been set closer to the floor on the southern side of the constructing to frame views for the kids rather than grownups.
The developing has two entrances. One particular is at the end close to the toilets and storage location, which adjoins a covered walkway leading straight from the school. The other is on the building’s northern side, close to the kitchen, which permits meals and cooking tools to be carried effortlessly from an adjacent auto park.
The creating expense roughly €270,000 (£192,000) to construct, and García-Pola Vallejo says it could be adapted for diverse uses in the potential, or even transported to a different website.
“Contemplating the limitations of the available land, the constructing was developed so it could be extended or adapted for other functions, and mechanisms are planned so that the structural modules can be dismantled and transported,” he stated.
Photography is by Marcos Morilla.
Undertaking credits:
Architect: Miguel Ángel García-Pola Vallejo
Technical architect: Enrique Mendívil Barcala
Mining engineer: Javier Fuente Alonso
Industrial technical architect: Fernando Díaz García
Construction: Modultec SL
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