The project is about a little old building which
belongs the first part of twenty century and works in particular on its
interior spaces. The aim, therefore, is to preserve the outside building skin
so the architectonic character and structure.
Twenty classrooms are distributed on the building’s
three floors and can become, as required, flexible learning spaces which can
communicate to each other in case of collective jobs and interdisciplinary
didactics.The classrooms distribution draws, by its irregular scheme, a time
gallery for kid’s manual works expositions and play areas.
The project purpose is to create a total new style of
irregular spaces, fluid and different views, where pupils can feel welcome, as
in a game: the railing in micro-forated sheet panels, which belong the new
stair in betòn, draws stylized kids
shapes hand in hand. This draw goes along the whole route where pre-existent
windows have been closed, for security measures, by painted Lexan panels, which
always filter sunlight in different ways, giving to the staircase fairy
atmosphere and creating interesting light games. On the other hand there is the
central stair, which has been totally reconstructed for security measures. Its
structure, in painted iron and with printed crystal treads, allows kids to see
each other through transparent surface’s treads, going along it.
On the top of
the stair there was a skylight,covering it, that has been transformed into a
planetary and the space behind has become a little arena in painted iron, where
kids can see the sky.
Community areas draw external play areas: a ramp,
which connects the external garden to the ground floor, has irregular character
and, going around one of the old and secular trees, can be compared to a big
playground slide.The garden itself also defines new play areas with sand and
shingle and colored resin places.