EL PRAT NURSERY

There are forms whose images, impressed in the historical  memory, mark the territorial genetic code. It’s only with the respect and the coherence with our own origins that we can create the vision of a site able to embody a collective value.

The evolution of the concept of “hortus conclusus” as a space where Man and Nature provide representation of “one” truth, dirve us to an object which is bearer of a double worth: the self-referentiality of a small self-sufficient community – with its own rules, gestures and rhythms focused to the children and to the pedagogic activities – and the character of an architectural object, integrated with the context and able to add new meanings to the urban tissue at the urban scale.