IES Artés

Colorful circular ceiling designs cast shadows on a covered walkway supported by concrete columns.

Exterior view featuring a facade with vertical metal slats and concrete columns supporting the structure.

Angled view of Artes High School's facade showcasing the vertical metal slats against a clear blue sky, emphasizing the modern architectural design.

Exterior view featuring a modern design with vertical metal cladding and a secure fence along the perimeter.

Interior view of a gymnasium with exposed concrete beams and walls, large windows, and wooden gymnastic equipment along one wall.

Close-up view of the vertical metal slats forming the facade of Artes High School, creating a dynamic and textured pattern.

Exterior view showcasing a spacious outdoor sports court and the building's facade with vertical metal slats and concrete columns.

A low-angle architectural photograph of a covered outdoor school pavilion. The perspective follows a row of exposed concrete pillars casting sharp shadows onto the ground. The underside of the concrete roof features a striking geometric design with large, vibrant circles painted in yellow, orange, and red. In the background, concrete bleachers lead up to an outdoor sports court with a wire fence under a bright sky.

Educational Architecture Photography: IES Artés by EMBA

This institutional architectural photography collection documents the modern expansion and structure of IES Artés, a public secondary school in Artés, Barcelona. Designed by **EMBA, Estudi Massip-Bosch Arquitectes*, this educational building delivers a sophisticated take on civic institutional design, optimising raw structural materials to create an energetic, bright learning setting.

The photoshoot draws attention to the crisp linear patterns, dynamic shadow play, and honest materiality defining this contemporary campus.

Capturing Exterior Slats, Concrete Columns, and Circular Shapes

The exterior architecture photography focuses on structural rhythm, geometric framing, and the building’s use of natural sunlight.

Vertical Slats and Linear Patterns: A defining characteristic of the school’s facade is the use of sleek vertical metal cladding and slats. The photography utilizes precise wide-angle framing to capture these repeating lines, showing how they provide privacy and sun-shading while giving the institutional volume a clean, unified identity.
Playful Geometric Shadow Work: A standout sequence in this architectural series focuses on the building’s covered outdoor walkways. Supported by concrete columns, these overhead structures feature bold, colourful circular ceiling designs. The photography captures the Mediterranean sun passing through these geometric cutouts, casting dynamic patterns of light and shade along the concrete pathways below.

Documenting Luminous Spaces and Raw Interior Materiality

Photographing the interior spaces of IES Artés requires capturing structural permanence alongside an airy, open layout suited to student movement.

The photography features the school’s massive indoor gymnasium, which showcases a brutalist-inspired palette of exposed concrete beams and walls. The compositions frame the soaring, double-height volumes, showing how towering grids of large windows fill the raw concrete surfaces with soft, uniform daylight. Every frame in this institutional gallery maintains strict orthogonal alignment, keeping the tall pillars, metal fences, and window joints perfectly vertical.

This collection provides an enduring, high-fidelity visual archive of EMBA’s contribution to public works and progressive educational design in Catalonia.