Modular Roof Gardens

PROJECT & MATERIALITY Roubair George Youssef Rafik Mourad Medhat Professor Oriol Pons Valladares

Location

Escola Els Quatre Vents -Public School Carrer Santa Madrona , 20 08420 Canovelles , Barcelona , Spain

A Historic Town on the Edge of Granollers Canovelles is a municipality in the comarca of El Vallès Oriental located in the center of the Congost valley.

It was a village until the 1960s but underwent so much population development during the period of gigantic immigration that it presently features a population of over 16,000 occupants and is effectively a suburb of Granollers.

The roots of the town date back at slightest to the medieval period because it was initially a cluster of houses around the Romanesque church of Sant Feliu. Canovelles is right now known for its Sunday market, which is one of the biggest in Catalonia.

Numerous archaeological finds from the Neolithic Period and the Roman Empire have been found in Canovelles. The first time the term Canovelles shows up in a report is in 1008 Ad, in an archive relating to the Abbot of Sant Cugat.

Between the 1950s and the 1970s, numerous families from Extremadura and Andalusia arrived to the region, expanding the population by a factor of twenty. Since the end of the 1990s individuals from Morocco, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America have been arriving to Canovelles in incredible numbers.

Escola Els Quatre Vents and the urban context The canovelles neighborhood is partially industrial and partially housing with a little schools and markets. The city is known for their industrial zone which started marching toward the housing part, the city is famous for its Sunday market where they nearly sells everything. The canovelles is located at the end of the granollers in away touching the sea. The urban farming is also a big part of the city usually most of the residential buildings and the areas are surrounded by farming areas. Our proposal is applied on the Escola Els Quatre Vents The school was designed by the architects Josep Camps and Olga Felip (Beta Architecture Studio). It covers an area of 3,154.88 m2 and was completed in august 2018. The school is designed in a compact manner including two floors with the children’s area being on the ground floor while the primary area is placed on the first floor. More programs are developed in the access of the building from the entrance distributing the different programs.

The current location of the school is found between the oldest centre and the modern industrial growths close the C-352 highway.

Having a separate access for children to facilitate the entry and pick up of younger children. The library and AMPA have independent accessibility from the outer environment. The service area has a separate entrance from the street which is separate from the main access of the school. Lastly, access to the slopes is foreseen from the street the other end of the plot.

References

The Simonne-Mathieu tennis France

Side view of the Green house

Section of the the Green house showing structural system

Inner view of the Green house

Construction Process Workshop Drawings

Escola Els Quatre Vents Workshop Drawing

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The school is the support and backdrop of the daily life of children and teachers, learning and play.Escola Els Quatre Vents is located in canovelles city , the city is semi villaged , which means alot of green areas and farms. so the suitable addition to the school in a way that makes it integrate and praise from it origin was a green house.

Our proposed green house is simple structural steel light system project,were it could be fixed and removed so easily and fast.We insisted of having the idea of modularity in the structure and the system so it could be installed in any place and many place as much as possible.The most important point that it could be fixed manually by the buyer himself, in our case are the teaching staff or un proffesional school worker could fix and install it as it depends on fixing parts into each other repeatedly which is possible and easy and doesnt need professional person and doesnt take alot of time or energy.The body is of light steel structures, the upper part and the two sides are closed with polycarbonated clear sheets which are durable enough and could be easily replaced at any time by the teaching staff or the students themselves.

As for the polycarbonated material which represent more than the half of the system.

Polycarbonate is another strong yet lightweight material. It does not let in as much sunlight as glass does but, it diffuses the light which creates an optimum environment for the growing plants inside. It has excellent heat retention and insulation properties. It is obviously not as pleasing to the eyes as glass but, it is very easy to maintain and is budget-friendly. A polycarbonate roof can last for years together without breaking or any need of heavy framing. Nowadays, UV treatments are available for polycarbonate greenhouse panels to help preventing fading and yellowing up to 10 years.

Structural Details Workshop Drawing

Exploded Axanometric showing the installation and the fixation of the different parts of the green house over the roof of the school.

Structural Details Workshop Drawing

Detail 1 - A-New extended hollow column of the green house connected to steel plate using L shaped connections connected from under to the existing hollow column of the school using M4 screws in fixation.

B- I shaped column fixed with L shaped connections screwed to the new hollow extended column of the green house .

Structural Details Workshop Drawing

Detail 2 - A -Connection of I curved column of the green house to the ground (roof) of the school using square steel plate connecting both together using L shaped connections and M4 screws.

B- Rain water gutter fixed to the steel I cloumn using steel plate as connection between it and the rain water gutter screwed both using M4 screws.

Structural Details Workshop Drawing

Detail 3 - Installtion of the Polycarbonate sheets into the structural system by fixing the sheet into the vertical mullions using l shaped connection from the upper part under from the lower part and fixing them using M4 screws.

Fixed Anchorage Assembly Mullion

Detail 4 - A - Connection of upper part of the mullion to the I curvec column using L shaped connections on both sides and M4 screws to fix the connections into the mullionand into the column.

B- Connection of the Polycarbonate sheets to the upper part of the I column using L shaped connection and M4 screws for fixation.

Fixed Anchorage Assembly Mullion

Detail 5 - A - Connection of the mullion’s lower part to the ground using L shaped connections and screwed with M4 screws into the ground.

B - Connection of the Polycarbonate sheets with L shaped to the ground with M4 screws.

Wall-H Compression Fitting for Glass Rainscreen Systems

Detail - 6- A- Connection of the Polycarbonated panels to each other using Wall-H compression fiiting for glass.

Approx. single-panel fitting face size: Width = (800 mm), Height = (800 mm), Thickness = (4 mm)

Wall-H Compression Fitting for Glass Rainscreen Systems

Detail - 7- (First Drawing) -A-Connection of the Wall-H fitters To the I Beam using l shaped connections and screws.

B-Connection of the Wall-H fitters to the I curved column using steel plate and M4 screws.

(Second Drawings)-A-Connection of the Polycarbonate sheets into the mullion fixed into the I Beam using screws and bolts.

Shutter Installation

Detail - 8 - Installation of the shutter into the green house.

A - The shutter sheets consists of Polycarbonated clear sheets that could easily by lift up an released through circular system that could be managed manualy by the user.

B - The shutter system is fixed into the Main I curved beam by screw and bolts.

Links and References - https://bendheim.com/system_product/wall-h-fitting/ - https://www.beta-architecture.com/escola-els-quatre-vents-josep-camps-olga-felip/ - https://www.barcelonas.com/canovelles.html -https://www.dezeen.com/2019/05/22/roland-garros-french-open-court-simonne-mathieu-tennis-stadium-marc-mimram/ -https://www.archdaily.com/catalog/us/products/12306/glass-rainscreen-systems-bendheim