Seeds

Seeds diversity is the concept behind my project. I seek to create awareness about autism through architecture raised with the guiding principle that we are all different and it is in the difference of each one that we complete ourselves as a society. The central tree is the central architectural axis, from which all the small buildings arise where the experience of the building is complemented. It was a total work of 7 months. In order to understand this project, I did an investigation of the site but especially of autism and how architecture creates more appropriate experiences and spaces for people on the spectrum. When proposing the program, I sought to go a little further with the therapy area for families. It seems to me a space that should exist in many places, since that way we could all understand much better what it means to help someone with autism. The materials used are simple, leaving the space clean to unsaturate the children's senses. All the furniture was designed by me to be adapted to the needs of the project. I was looking for more than just a toy library in the educational areas, in reality I was looking for the children to feel identified with the design of the furniture and with the confidence of being themselves. A specific objective was the glass panels that make the space fluent and which the children can enter and leave without crossing doors there are sliding glasses that integrates the building with the environment.The expansion plan of the project is that the classrooms can be adapted so that each one can hold 30 children, thus tripling the current capacity.The project was first transformed from being square to then trying this circle by hugging the children and creating a space of safety and trust.