UEPM学校

与环境的关系

项目响应的是双重背景关系。一方面是城市与自然的关系，其中最大的张力点是中央街区，这是对现实的对抗和连接，另一方面是现有的学校与景观的关系。

Relation with the context

There are dual context relations to which the project responds to. On the one hand the city/nature, where the maximum tension point is the central block -that counterpose and links both realities- and on the other hand, existing school/landscape.

总体流线

体量的衔接是为了在底层产生一个自由的流线，在上层产生一个圆形的流线。即该项目可以理解为一个连续的空地和一个上层环形的叠加，它们通过垂直流线连接起来。当中心区块上升时，它同时允许继续从现有的学校到新的操场的旅程，并包括一个大的灵活的和有盖的空间，以加强在校园里的学术实践和方法论的活动。

Total path

Articulation of volumes in order to generate a free movement in the ground floor and a circular one in the upper floor. I.e. the project could be understood as the superposition of a continuous empty and an upper ring that are linked by the vertical circulations. When the central block rises, it allows at the same time to continue the journey from the existing school to the new playground and include a large flexible and covered space that strengthens the activities of academic practice and methodology in the schoolyard.

渐进性的中庭空间

这组街区将空地配置成一个中间空间。我们决定将物体分散在场域中，以实现虚实的空间序列，用户在不同规模和特征的空隙中移动。这种渐进性使得在穿越街区的那一刻，城市的连续性、天井、门户、花园和森林都会出现。

Gradualness and intermediate spaces

The set of blocks configures the empty as an intermediate space obtaining a phenomenological graduation by stripes that is evident in access, circulation, auctions and courtyards. It is decided to disperse the object in the field to achieve a sequence of full and empty where the user moves through gaps of different scale and character. This gradualness allows that at the moment of crossing the blocks the urban continuity, the patios, portals, gardens and the forest will be present.

建设性的过程:效率和表达

除了地点、方案和语言的可变因素外，该项目还从建设过程中获得了一种响应效率和表达的方法。项目的规模要求将变量系统化，这样它们就不会在其建设性和经济维度中失去控制，这就提出了理解系统化的可能性及其局限性的问题。这样，当考虑到一个连贯和富有表现力的整体的构造时，技术决策就变得更加复杂。

Constructive process: efficiency and expression

Beyond the variables of location, program and language, the project receives from the constructive process a methodology that responds to efficiency and expression. The scale of the project demands to systematize the variables so that they do not get out of control in their constructive and economic dimension, which raises the question of understanding both the possibilities of systematization and its limits. In this way the technical decision becomes more complex when taking into account the conformation of a coherent and expressive whole.

例如，在结构系统中，中心块的" V"字栏创造了针对结构刚性条件的技术解决方案，并突出了其他块在创造项目的重力中心的规律性方面的差异，在围墙系统中，在立面上保持扶手并在物体上产生韵律的重复元素-以及在安装系统中，当走到立面上并显示出其功能时-就可以证明这一点。

This is evidenced, for example, in the structural system, - "V" column of the central block that creates a technical solution against structural rigidity conditions and highlights the difference regarding the regularity of the other blocks creating a gravitational center of the project-, in the system of enclosures - repetition elements on the facade that hold the handrail and generate a rhythm in the object- and in the installation system - when going out to the facade and showing beyond its functionality-.

因此，技术响应不足以使项目具体化，但构成项目对象的各个部分之间的对应是必要的，从这个意义上说，"每个技术决策都必须经过项目的表达"，尽管也可以用相反的话说:"每个表达决策也必须是有用的"。

So that the technical response is not enough to materialize the project, but the correspondence between the parts that make up the architectural object is necessary and, in that sense, "every technical decision had to pass through the expressive filter of the project", although the same can say in reverse: "Every expressive decision must also be useful".

这样，就形成了一种工作立场，它力求在不忘记其复杂性的情况下对现实作出反应，在工作的愿望作为对普遍确立的任务的不断修订与任务的限度之间，在叙述对象和必须控制项目规模所呈现的变量之间寻求平衡。

Thus, a work position is formed that seeks to respond to reality without forgetting its complexity, seeking a balance between the aspirations of the job -as a constant revision of the commonly established- and the limits of the assignment, between the narrative of the object and the necessity to control the variables that the scale of the project presented.

Project name: UEPM Quito Classrooms

Company name: Espinoza Carvajal Arquitectos

Website: https://espinozacarvajal.com/

Contact e-mail: espinozacarvajal.ai@gmail.com

Project location: Ecuador, El Inca, DMQ, Quito

De Las Orquideas 56, Quito 170138

Completion Year: 2018

Building area (m²): 2910m2

Other participants:  Juan Carlos Villacres, Andy Molina

Photo credits: Bicubik https://www.bicubik.photo/, Jag Studio https://jagstudio.ec/portafolio