{"id":13074,"date":"2023-01-04T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/?p=13074"},"modified":"2023-01-05T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:30:04","slug":"multi-species-architecture-enrique-espinosa-eeestudio-lys-villalba-educan-brunete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/multi-species-architecture-enrique-espinosa-eeestudio-lys-villalba-educan-brunete\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-species architecture. Enrique Espinosa (Eeestudio) & Lys Villalba: Educan, Brunete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We cohabitate with animals for a long time. In the last hundreds of years, this cohabitation has profoundly changed, from the explosion of pets to industrialized agriculture, as well as our destruction of natural habitats and elimination of species. Today, ecological disasters, foxes and bears coming into the cities but also a new environmental consciousness have raised theproblem of how architecture should (re)learn to deal with co-habitation with other species. And this is about so much more than passive house design.<\/p>\n

This school for dogs, humans and other species in the Spanish countryside does answer to a specific program. But it also speaks about environmental strategies and gentle innovation. (Cătălina Frâncu)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Text: Enrique Espinosa (Eeestudio)<\/strong> & Lys Villalba<\/strong>
\nPhoto: José Hevia<\/strong> & Javier de Paz<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eva, Carlos, two Belgian Malinois – Bicho and Bomba –, Harris the owl, five swift families, six kestrel families and twenty sparrows, are all companion species. They live and learn together in this building, thirty kilometres west of Madrid.<\/p>\n

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$\"02_AB_Eeestudio$ <\/a>*Signaletics\/”Branch”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sitting in amongst fields, in a rural environment transformed over recent decades by urban development and intensive pesticide-reliant agriculture, Educan School is trialling ways to recover the conditions of the ecosystem.<\/p>\n

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*Site axonometry<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Its architecture is a multi-species design. While the two main classrooms are busy with dog–human pairs practising agility or dog sports like Schutzhund, birds nest on the upper floor’s nest-facade, boasting ideal views and orientation. Small birds of prey feed on rodents, maintaining a balance with crops and other local flora. Small birds and bats – who also inhabit the lettering on the south facade – feed on insects, including mosquitoes that can carry certain canine diseases, and are part of the pollination cycles of flowers and plants in the surrounding fields. Sparrows made an impromptu appearance in this self-regulating ecosystem, nesting in the circular holes of the container edges.<\/p>\n

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