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Published by I Lomholt updated on May 28, 2015
Oratory and Auditorium Retamar School, Madrid Development, SpanishEducation Building, Images
Oratory and Auditorium Retamar SchoolEducation Building in Spain – design by artytech2
27 May 2015
Oratory and Auditorium Retamar School in MadridDesign: artytech2
Location: C.Pajares 22, Somosaguas, Pozuelo de Alarcon, Madrid, Spain
Grupo GUBIA makes bamboo carpentry for the oratory andauditorium Retamar School design by Artytech2
As a result of a thorough research in bamboo, a material still novel and withmany possibilities, made by Grupo GUBIA, Retamar School oratory andauditorium benefits of an exclusive design in the carpentry lining of the buildingcreated by Artytech2
The Retamar School had a chapel for 250 persons, after 50 years of teachingactivity and a capacity of more than 2.250 pupils, obviously insufficient for the
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important annual festivities taking place in this center.
We got the commission to present a proposal to substitute the existing buildingfor a new one, with a capacity of 600 persons and an additional auditorium for450 spectators. Our project was looking for the integration with the rest of theedification, constructed in bricks, but being a representative building for theschool at the same time, standing out with its grand roof done out of green zinc.
Even though it might not appear on the first impression, the building is managedthrough its interior: The inside space of the oratory, which is logically the most
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important of the project, has given it its character and its “soul”. We were lookingfor a building, being able to serve all kind of grand celebrations as well as fulfil theday by day work for a school of hundreds of children between five and seventeenyears old and more than five hundred families…but the real challenge has beento create a space where everybody, alone, is able to withdraw to talk to God.
Obviously, a space of thirty five meters length, twenty two meters width andtwelve meters height seem to be difficult to fulfil those expectations;nevertheless, natural light, the chosen materials in this construction and acomposed asymmetry pretend to solve this.
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A successive division of the great interior space was the strategy. Light entersthrough the triangular skylights of the roof from portico to portico and is led tothe presbytery, dominated by the shrine.
The entrance, placed under a huge and important stained glass incorporated to acurtain wall, is on the wing, which opens to the redesigned plaza of the school.This entrance unveils its asymmetry by creating a first rupture: A grandstand withfew steps to the left side, and to the right the main part of the nave. The higherlevel grandstand and the chorus are used for special days with higher turnout.The lighting there is achieved by a picture window, done as well with stainedglass, which, although having a different shape, reminds to a rose window.
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After having passed the entrance, the view is guided to the presbytery, as wellslightly elevated, a grand alcove in which, behind the altar, a free-standingaltarpiece frames the shrine.
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The nave is covered with timber out of bamboo, in slats at the ceiling, in order toget perfectly adapted to the different curved surfaces of the roof and to achievethe transition from curve to plane, where panels are used. The inside shell of thepresbytery substitutes the bamboo for titan with a golden flair, as well as thegolden granite changes to green granite around the altar, to mark the differenceand the importance of this area.
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The most important and holiest space of the building, the presbytery of theoratory is done by a special material: Extremely thin layers of titan put togetherin fish scale pattern of six types in rows of different width to adapt as well to thecurved surfaces and to allow the shrine to be exactly in the centre of theasymmetric space of the presbytery. This new method to execute this materialhas been performed here for the very first time, and its great effect, thepresbytery gets an absolute singular outlook, justifies its complicity.
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The bamboo, apart from reinforcing the continuity of the whole space, givessingular warmth and allows that a space with this volumetric character, is capableto proportionate the surface for the acoustic absorption between its slats forchant, word and prayer. All the timber used in the building except the benches isbamboo because of the special properties of this wood.
The aisles, playing with the division of the roof, are forming the main entranceunder the curtain wall, or are creating the emergency exit and the access to thesacristy following the curved front formed by the confessionals, as well done outof bamboo.
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The effects achieved by the natural lighting get reinforced and accentuated bythe artificial lighting.We had the great luck, being allowed to design as well the lights of the oratory, allthe wooden benches, the inverted granite pyramid for the holy water and the twohuge windows of stained glass with Latin, Greek and Aramaic texts and abstractdrawings in blue tones according to their significance, which create a vividcontrast to the warm colour of the wooden interior.
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But, coming back to the beginning, the oratory appears as a unit, supported by abase of bricks under which, in its interior, is hosted the auditorium.
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After proceeding through the entrance hall, a kind of intermediate space betweenthe existing building and the new edification opens up, justifying this big slap inbetween, where a concrete staircase lowers to the level of the auditorium under ahuge skylight. The upper platform of the staircase is as well connected to anelevator, communicating the lowest floor with the entrance level and as well twofloors higher, with the terrace of the existing building, accompanied by a secondnew built outer concrete staircase, to connect the old with the new. This hugeslap, overflowed with natural light, is converted into a second kind of entrancespace and leads the visitor to the auditorium.
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The auditorium takes part in the structural game of the whole unit, respecting theorthogonal system of the oratory with big concrete beams, but, at the same timecomposed and working with a turned axis in respect to those, which allows toextend the visualization of the background of the scenery and pretends to makethe hall more profound than it is in reality, having the rows close to the scenerywith a notable sensation of proximity with the speaker or the actors.
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The interior of the auditorium is formalized by the contrast of two main surfaces,two finishes very differentiated: Galvanized deployé metal shields and bamboopanels. The wing mantles appear as perforated metal pieces that, apart fromconditioning acoustically the space, limit at the same time the interior skin. Thebig columns in front of these are panelled with wood and organize the falseceiling done by floating slats of perforated wood, inclined in order to permitperfect conditioning of the acoustic. In between the slats, hardly visible, thedeployé is used to host the lighting of the auditorium. This directional gameallows concentrating to the scenery. The screen of the cinema, as well designedasymmetrically, is covered by bamboo sliding panels. On the same floor arethree more multipurpose classrooms, rest rooms and technical rooms.
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From the outside, a concrete staircase, part of a kind of amphitheatre, that givesdifferent possibilities of use to the space surrounding the building, leads as well tothe auditorium. Next to the auditorium, the huge cantilever of the chorus of theoratory gives shelter to the outside scenery, where the school has an additionalpossibility to perform summer theatre and other festivities.
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This interior game of two main spaces gets expressed at the exterior by thedialog between the brick and the zinc, the static and the dynamic element.
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