In 1980s Barcelona, at the foot of Tibidabo mountain, the St Paul’s School project began. Its evolving relationship with architecture and time and its origin and subsequent growth in response to changing needs, is expressed through a series of interventions carried out between 1986 and 2024.
Four projects that have resulted in five buildings, which together consolidate a state-of-the-art educational campus in Barcelona.
The steep topography becomes a decisive factor in defining and implementing the project’s layout, with the buildings themselves often resolving the transition between the lowest and highest levels of the site.
The outdoor spaces are conceived as a fundamental part of the project, forming areas devoted to sports, recreation, and social interaction among students. At the highest point of the campus, a stepped gathering space has been designed as an Agora for hosting school events.
At the lower level, the project incorporates an indoor sports hall, complemented by outdoor courts for open-air athletic activities.
The architecture is sober, modern, and functional.
Geometrically, the ensemble of buildings is perceived as a rhythmic succession of rigorously ordered pure volumes.
Materialized through different light-colored elements that have evolved over the years, from the white brick used in the early phases to the precast components of the most recent one.