Escuela hogar en Morella: construir un lugar, trazar el movimiento, registrar el tiempo

Abstract

The Boarding School in Morella is one of the projects that most accurately encapsulates the interests, resources and aspirations of the architecture of Carme Pinós and Enric Miralles, together with the cemetery of Igualada. Like most of their early projects, it took a long time to build and ended up with Carme Pinós directing the work on her own. In the school, the geometrical and material systems that characterised them the most were considered. Craftsmanship and traditional wet construction are combined with artistic resources from the avant-garde of the early 20th century. Similarly, the use of reinforced concrete, both in situ and in small format prefabricated pieces, allowed them to refine the particular solutions within the framework of a cohesive whole of triangular geometry and staggered construction, which respects the unevenness of the site, enhances the views and creates a zigzagging path that blurs the categories of interior and exterior. In short, it defines a public space that is open to the landscape and mindful of the passage of time, alongside which its materials are transformed and evolve.