Classroom buildoig for the faculty of sciences in the campus of the university of Alcala de Henares/Madrid/Spain

Abstract

We present here a building designed for classrooms. The designer's intention was to create a functional, comprehensive facility where common areas and corridors, integrated in the landscape, were clearly differenciated from the classrooms conceived as a participative learning space. Form is to help function and, particularly, a directional environment is to be created in classrooms to promote discussion. Acoustic conditioning requieres, to achieve the best possible understanding of speech, using appropriate construction techniques to create an inmission level typical of a dead medium room with a high level of external noise. Finishing materials are used to adjust the frequency-reverberation time to the optimal period without recourse to electro-acoustic means.