Cabrils Secondary School, Maresme Education Building, Photos, Barcelona Architecture
Cabrils Secondary School near Barcelona
Educational Facility Development in Maresme, Catalonia, Spain – design by VSarquitectura
17 Jan 2018
Institut Cabrils
Architect: VSarquitectura
Location: Cabrils, comarca of Maresme, province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Institut Cabrils

Photos: Simon Garcia
The new Secondary School is located at the entrance to the town of Cabrils, very close to Barcelona. As you enter the village, it is the first of a series of facilities (school, sports center …) located along the road following the riverbed.

The sea and the mountain range parallel to the coast characterize an extremely urbanized and altered by man place. It is a boundary area between the fields and greenhouses that escaped urban development, and the villages, houses in row and sparsely inhabited housing estates that cover the lower part of the mountain, with the sea visible on the horizon.
The building was designed to accommodate a very specific and strict functional programme, as well as the need to release as much free space as possible for the playground and to enable a future growth. With these premises was conceived a 100m long piece parallel to the access road to the village and to the stream that descends towards the sea. The difference between the two ends exceeds one floor height.

Hence, the first architectural decision is taken with the aim of a better integration of t...