Nursery School of Callosa

Photos by : David Frutos In “Alice in Wonderland”, Lewis Carrol, take us back to the duality of the adult-child world and its opposite feelings: imagination-reality, game-work, fun-responsability, etc… The nursery school change into Alice’s world, where everything are feelings, experiences, scale games, color, everything perceived through the innocent kids eyes. The building is conceived as a continuum space built by pieces, this pieces are placed in a way that the whole space is divided. This way the architects wanted to create a transversal relationship between the two worlds, interior and exterior, enhancing the ambiguity between them, from where everything is a game untill where the education is required, they can enjoy happily all day long. The school entrance, a roofed open space, not only introduce the visitor into the building but glimpse how the building is going to be, so as it was a game the children go inside the nursery school, establishing at the same time a clear difference between public and private space. The classrooms are created as dividers that plays with children scales marking out the interior spaces, somehow the adults are capable of having a whole vision and control from all over the building. The ...