The future Basque Centre for Research and Innovation in Urban Regeneration will work together with Otxar Opengela  

The former BBK kindergarten in Otxarkoaga

The former BBK kindergarten in Otxarkoaga (Bilbao) will be fully refurbished to become a Research and Innovation Centre for Urban Regeneration in collaboration with the UPV/EHU. The facility, which is currently in disuse, is part of the building complex of the old school and its gardens.

It is a two-storey free-standing building built in 1965 and connected by a covered walkway to the main building, which today is used as the Otxar Opengela proximity office, training rooms and exhibition hall.

The works will be carried out by Bilbao Municipal Housing with a budget of almost one million euros. The project presents a plan that distributes the uses according to their surface area and importance, placing the more private uses (offices and research spaces) on the first floor and the more public uses, such as training, workshop and laboratory areas, as well as the coffee/office area, on the ground floor and in connection with the main building.

Thus, it is proposed to build a new and modern façade that will turn it into an almost zero consumption building; to eliminate architectural barriers both internally, with the incorporation of a lift for communication between floors, and externally, with the creation of an access from the street through the construction of an access walkway to the roof of the building and the construction of a new staircase to this roof, and the total renovation of the building both inside and outside, ‘with a new renovated image that will turn it, thanks to its strategic location, into a landmark in the urban landscape of the city’.

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