Naturalezas docentes. Isla y Senda Verde Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación. Universidad de Málag

The Island and Green Path of the Faculty of Education Sciences is a project where spaces for children are designed in a naturalized environment from an educational point of view. The project is based on the idea of rethinking current playgrounds, creating outdoor spaces for children where boys and girls connect with nature and interact with different types of materials. Due to its location within the University of Malaga, this new urban park dedicated to children and students is proposed, where they can interact and learn from each other. Its location between the Faculty of Education Sciences and the Infant School of the University is key. university, this allows us to create two differentiated and at the same time united spaces where some can play and others learn, therefore learning by playing. On the one hand, a topographic space is created where students can rest and on the other, a more constructed space where children and Girls develop their learning linked to play and nature as teaching resources. This is how it is proposed to rethink green and rest areas as learning environments. To do this, the pre-existing conditions of the place, the new soil to be incorporated, the new vegetation and the new architectures proposed are studied from a pedagogical perspective, understanding space and vegetation as teaching elements.The main elements of the project are the current and proposed vegetation, operational topographies, architectural fold and materiality. The fold thus creates different types of spaces for the development of the boy and girl, spaces where they can play with sizes, with scale, work on motor development, or teach small classes, a set of open scenarios where they can continually create new routes and games linked to nature. Vegetation is the key to the space, not only because of the quality and quality that it offers to the space, the natural shade in the play spaces is key: All the existing trees in the place have been maintained, creating small topographies and fences where they can accumulate. the fruits and that can serve as game elements; New bushy vegetation has been incorporated to work with the senses, color, smell and textures to turn them into elements of learning and play. The topographies made with different types of textures are areas for rest and at the same time to be explored by children, offering a new space for relating to the trees, exploring them at different heights, relating to the trunk or the crown. There are also some prefabricated pieces as benches for sitting or sliding. The materiality has been sought to coexist between the most natural and the most contemporary, for this different textures of sand, gravel and native vegetation are used to create the areas of the park and the fold uses elements built in Solid Surface for its ease of cleaning and adaptation to different shapes.