SUB UMBRA ALARUM TUARUM

The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) invited us to take part in a competition for the construction of a school very close to Mount Ararat, considered to be the final resting-place of Noah’s Ark.  

Then, having won the competition, we were entrusted with the task of designing a nursery at the entrance to the Campus.  

We have taken from the book of Psalms this beautiful quote, sub umbra alarum tuarum protegenos, (under the shadow of your wings protect us), because our nursery in Armenia is a shaded place for the protection of children. 

The Nursery on one floor will be simple, economical and carefully managed. We have designed a square grid structure measuring 20x20 meters, with equidistant pillars, in the form of a large table as it were, made of reinforced concrete, 3.6 meters high. Underneath this structure is where the requested 250 m2 program is developed, entirely built with white walls and glass. And later on, in the future, we hope to build the white wall that will surround our table.  

What we are proposing here is an understated and quiet architecture, perfectly capable of fulfilling the functions we have been asked to provide.

Team:

Architect: Alberto Campo Baeza

(Collaborators architects):
Alejandro Cervilla García
Ignacio Aguirre López
Alfonso Guajardo-Fajardo Cruz
Elena Jiménez Sánchez
Juan José Sánchez Rivas
Àngels Cañellas Genius
Elena Pérez Espigares
Marta Carranza Ostos

Local architect:  
DAAP Architecture studio (Aleksandr Danielyan)
Valeria Parkacheva
Siranush Varderesyan

Master plan: SP2 (Sarhat Petrosyan)

Photographer: Javier Callejas Sevilla

Materials Used:

Ceilings and gypsum board panels: Knauf
Façades: Isomat thermosystem
Air conditioning: Gree