Situation and fonction:
The covered entrance follows the slope of the stairs by being anchored in its steps and is used as entrance porch to the schoolyard. It works as an additional shadow area where parents sit down on steps at the end of the classes. Seats and backs placed like tortoiseshells, the visible structure lower part like bug-legged and the eyes painted by children give to the whole the look of an animal. For the arrival, the porch opening frames the landscape.
Process:
10 wooden boards removed from a transport pallet form a three-jointed structure like a finger. When two of them are fitted together by their tips in one or two sections, they constitute a flexible framework generating a wide shapes repertoire.
Then the framework created takes the shape of an arc. Three arcs located one after the other create the porch structure whose cover is made of seats and backs of chair salvaged from a dump.
The children of the school, more and more attracted by the project, ended up taking part in it by painting the roof with their own interpretation of the patterns models. The roof inside is green-painted, infrequent color in this barren landscape and air refreshing.
Participants in the project:
Marta and Daniel (architects from Madrid). Eva and Juan Carlos (friends from Madrid). Gonsalo (architectural student from the Universidad Nacional San Agustin de Arequipa). Denys - 6 years, his brother Ricardo - 9 years and their mother Victoria (caretaker from the Santo Tolibo School in Apiaar). Children from the Santo Tolibo: Ricardo, Manuel, his brother Omar and many other ones. Workmen "Los Maestros" from CIRCA (Federación de Círculos Sociales Católicos de Arequipa): Pedro y Eduardo.
