La Monsina infant school in Alicante is now 5 years old, just like many of its users. Architect, Angel Rocamora’s main focus of the project was to play with the different heights of the elements, creating the perfect balance between two worlds: children and adults, making it possible to combine values such as innocence and discovery with responsibility and work.
The basic outside structure is made of concrete, which is visible all over the building. The rest of the interior is panelled using Finsa’s CompacMel Plus in white. In fact, 50% of the furniture is so seamlessly integrated that the wall panelling often merges with a door, a wardrobe or even a shelf. The project was awarded for its design, which always kept in mind the end users: children.
Angel states, “Using CompacMel Plus allows a perfect geometry on the finishing and high precision during the execution. The black edge of this board gives us a clean look that can be left exposed and the white melamine helps us bring the brightness of the exterior to the interior”.
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