El Til·ler School

Designing Matter, Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius, Low Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, Tigges Architekt

Architecture&climate, Architecture&nature, Bellaterra, Comfort, Courtyard, Educational Building, Functionality, Insulation, Landscape, Light, Low budget, Optimized construction, Prefabrication, Project, Relational space, School, Spain, Sun relationship, Sustainable construction, Thermal comfort, Thermal inertia, Topography, User’s experience, Volume, Wood construction, Wooden panels

Photography: Adrià Goula

Recycling Five Buildings and a Garden
El Til·ler [Linden Tree] School is carefully inserted into a large, mature and abandoned private garden, in the garden suburb of Bellaterra, close to Barcelona. The complex is articulated along the existing main access path, which becomes a “rambla” (the Mediterranean name for a high street) that ends at a square which opens onto the landscape.