Spanish study CrystalZoo have renovated this old school in Novelda, Spain to create a youth center in the area and develop the area.
Novelda is a municipality of Valencia (Spain) located within the province of Alicante. Known for its grape production and trade in spices and marble, the town has 27,135 inhabitants (INE 2009).
Call Youth Casal Novelda, the top of the building was wrapped in a polycarbonate skin, causing it to exceed the bottom.
The windows are slightly recessed into the front and stand out in bright colors.
The materiality and lighting are the way in which this proposal establishes new links and relationships between the building and public space.
Part of the proposed project is a renovation of an old school building in your yard to allow new public uses
It offers a comprehensive and sophisticated equipment in this building and its plaza, through the installation of a new structure that surrounds the old school, with its own program and support for new activities.
The architects have created a new plaza at the entrance of the building, with little mounds of grass and a zig-zag on the pavement that creeps up on the center wall.
This courtyard is a place that complements and enables the use of this new building.
This structure provides illumination, energy and information systems, which define the specific settings for different situations that can happen.
Is a work on the reuse of old buildings and their adaptation to current needs.
The Youth Casal reinvents and establishes a dialogue between each stage of its evolution.
The square is a center of social activity in Novelda. This square is thus a place of expansion and openness published in the municipality.
This system consists of connecting roads that also define the soft parts that can adapt and link up with what's going on inside the building.
Life is opened, in this case, the creation of a new container capable of equipping the building and the plaza with new technologies and services.
