El Petit Comte Kindergarten

This kindergarten sits at the edge of a small town, facing hills and fields. The Spanish design team, in collaboration with J. Puigcorbé, kept it as a single low volume close to the ground.

Its skin is made of vertical tubes in yellow, orange, red and other colours, set side by side like a forest of stems. They screen the classrooms and play areas, let air and views pass between them and cast coloured light across the floors as the sun moves.

For the children the façade becomes something to look through, touch and play with. Inside, glazed walls behind the tubes keep the rooms open to the playground and the landscape beyond.