The chosen topic has been the product of the desire to want to discuss, debate and reflect on the importance of spaces in the educational center. Due to the need to want to go beyond the classroom, which seems to always be the protagonist, and get closer and give visibility to the many spaces and facilities that are also part of the life ofthe center and where very interesting stories are also told.
The concept “facilities” has to do with the complexes of buildings and infrastructures of a certain place. In this case, from an educational center with students from 0 to 3 years old. With this concept, classrooms, corridors, recreation areas … are taken into account. However, with this work, we have wanted to go further. We have wanted to combine formal and legislative aspects that must be kept in mind when building an educational institution (measures, materials, architectural elements …) But we have also seen it necessary to reflect how each space is and how it influences children and their relationship with spaces, with their peers and with teachers.
We also wanted to convey the need for certain spaces to exist in the center what, a priori, They may not seem very important, but they really add a lot of richness to the school experience for little ones.
We wanted to base this work on a series of ideas that summarize our work and our intention with it:
- How and in what way does the need to build schools comes up and how the works and pedagogies of certain authors have influenced it.
- Identify the most common facilities in educational centers, as well as their functionality, their use and the reason for their need.
- Identify the less commonly facilities present in schools and investigate why does it happen and why they should or should not have more presence in the centers.
- The meaning that the different spaces of the center have not only for the children, but for all the staff and those who participate in its life.
- Regulations and guidelines to comply with for the projection of a center.
- The numerous conceptualizations that appears when projecting spaces.
Authorship
Isis García y Juliana Alufo, 2020.