TANIA MARQUES ARCHITECT

 

The project is a small summercamp for children during the summer season.

 

Located in Cercedilla, a small town near Madrid, the project is situated in a mountainous area that has a large inflow of visitors, especially during the summer season, due to its green forests and its natural pools. The summer camp comes to complement the existing leisure equipment with a space dedicated exclusively for children.  

The project includes 15 dormitories, 2 common bathrooms and showers, a common leisure and eating area, one kitchen, one storage area and one porch that runs alongside the building and provides access to the dormitories.

 

By analyzing the existing landscape, the new building seems to “emerge from the land and become the new landscape.”  The longitudinal volume has a curved façade made by wood louvers that create in its concave areas three different nature courtyards.

 

The building is constructed from wood with stone base elevated from the ground and the pathways run above the ground on pilotis minimizing their impact on the site in an effort to keep nature “as unspoiled as possible.”