Kindergarten in São Julião do Tojal Elementary School
Bárbara Delgado and João Santa Rita

The new kindergarten was built in the grounds of an existing base school. The new building is made up of several autonomous blocks connected by a single internal circulation space.

Four major usages were considered, namely the Activities Room block (red), the Administrative Services and Caretaker's block (yellow), the Kitchen Staff block (green) and two blocks that support the Activities Room and the Administrative Services (blue).

Special attention was given to the environment design in order to create good conditions of comfort either through the presence of the sun and the natural light in all the spaces of the kindergarten, either through the choice of the materials and textures, the school furniture and the project of signs.
The kindergarten building will have a simple constructive appearance, like a "Lego" toy. The colors will be familiar to younger children, taken from the color lexicon of early childhood toys, the primary ones, red, yellow and blue, visually coordinated through the bright pavement and roof tone.

 Project Escola e.b.1 de S. Julião do Tojal – ampliação para jardim de infância
 Location São Julião do Tojal, Loures
 Date 2003/2005
 Architects Bárbara Delgado e João Santa Rita
 Collaborators Patrícia Barbas, Filipe Nassauer Mónica
 Client Câmara Municipal de Loures
 Photo Empresa Construtora San Jose e Fernando Guerra | FG+SG