Pedro Domingos Arquitectos

Basic and Secondary School of Sever Do Vouga . Aveiro

Pedro Domingos Arquitectos . photos: © FG+SG fotografia de arquitectura

The school of Sever do Vouga is part of national program for the rehabilitation of the secondary schools. This program consisted on the rehabilitate of 300 schools, reusing existing facilities and adding new areas and programmatic space.

The spaces of common use were areas where there was more investment in these schools: Library, Students Room, Study Rooms, Canteen, Auditorium and Sports Venues.
The Primary and Secondary Sever do Vouga is located in the Serra Arestal and is part of the MacIço Gralheira, a mountainous region where its two main activities are agriculture and metallurgical industry. This school, with capacity for 1,500 pupils, aged between 10 and 17 years, serves all students of the council. They travel from all the villages of the Council to the school by bus. For these students the school is the place where they spend much of their day, functioning as a second “home”.
The School is set on a line of ridge, north / south, with a gap of 26m, amidst mountains, in an area with low urban density and a strong natural surroundings. The project reconstructs the relationship between the school and the Territory, sublimating the natural condition of the landscape area. We propose a fusion between nature and architecture. The main challenge of the new School is finding the balance between the formal classroom for teaching and outdoor spaces for freedom.

The project begins by taking as base four blocks of classes with two floors, built in 1984 and a sports pavilion. The proposal is to organize the school around these blocks, increasing the density and optimizing the supply of teaching spaces. This strategy is complemented by a set of patios and platforms for playgrounds with various dimensions exposed to the Natural and to the Valley. They have become the most important spaces in the school– as meeting and sharing spaces. From four existing blocks introduced a new structure in shape of a “L”, deployed according to a Cartesian system. The Basic School is at the highest level in a “U” shape, facing south, with classrooms open into a large central courtyard. The southern restructured Sports Complex, reusing the existing pavilion and adding a new tower which includes the new gyms and sports fields.
The different valences school implemented the three platforms are uneven mended by two complementary paths: one more artificial and pragmatic, oriented north / south, linking the three platforms (Primary School, Secondary School and Sports Complex) and other more natural topography and sweetened ever-ramp articulation of the three platforms. These two routes begin and end together. This routes are complemented by a path made by metallic bridges, which connect the existing blocks to the news. The “floating” paths are over the territory stretching the platform off the entry and linking the different blocks of the school.

Arquitectura:
Pedro Domingos Arquitectos
Autoria e coordenação:
Pedro Domingos
Colaboradores:
Pedro Gonçalves, Luís Rosário, Luís Pedro Rodrigues,
Hugo Amaro, Joana Fonseca, Patrícia Ribeiro
Arquitectura Paisagista:
Global Arquitectura Paisagista, João Gomes da Silva
Reforço Estrutural, Fundações e Estruturas:
Ara, Alves Rodrigues Associados, Fernando Rodrigues, Cristina Martinho
Electricidade, Segurança e Telecomunicações:
Ohmsor, Luís Mira
Instalações Mecânicas, Acústica, Certificação Energética:
Natural Works, Guilherme Carrilho da Graça
Hidráulica, Gás, Resíduos Sólidos, Plano segurança e Saúde:
João Guimarães
Sinalética:
P-06, Nuno Gusmão
Fotografia:
Fernando Guerra

Dono de Obra: Parque Escolar E.P.E.
Fiscalização: VHM, Vitor Hugo SA
Construtor: MRG, SA e Graviner, SA
Ano do Projecto: Setembro 2009, Abril 2010
Ano da Obra: outubro 2010, abril 2012
Área total construída: 17000m2
Área exterior: 35.000m2
Área reabilitada: 6.400m2
Área nova: 10.600m2
Custo: 16.000.000,00€
Alunos: 1512
Turmas