School Gym 704 was designed by Barcelona-based H Arquitectes located in an industrial estate Barberà del Vallès, Spain. Commissioned by the city council of Barberà del Vallès, School Gym 704 is a prefabricated, prism shaped building with a sloping roof. First of all, to place the gym separately from the existing school building to avoid any kind of inconvenience in the functioning of the school during construction. To use prefabricated building systems to reduce the run time.

The gym’s design includes a porch which provides access to the changing rooms and an outdoor running track for the children’s education centre. The structure of the gym is made of laminated timber board. The exterior covering is made up of transparent, poly-carbon panels that are fixed to galvanized steel battens, fastened to the wooden structure. School Gym 704 received a special mention within the ‘Green Building’ category at the Archi-Bau Architecture Awards in Munich this January.

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