The project of Kindergarten “Barbapapà” was designed to a notice competition for project financing, in 2006, proposed by Vignola’s municipality. The program consisted in the space for 60 children divided in four classroom.
The area is located on the border of urban development, on the hill up the city, not so much far to the historical centre. The natural environment induced specific assessments to preserve this atypical part of the landscape in the Emilia Romagna’s region. The project aimed to be an architectural expression of mature consciousness about the sustainable themes. This value was found in the all possible relationships with surroundings. The architectural project start to this point and express this principal theme in all his part, to transmit the sustainable value to all his young guests.The kindergarten can be divided in two building blocks. The first, developed on two level that contain the kitchen, technical rooms and all the changing rooms in the lowest floor, the main entrance, the office and a union center for parents and child in the first floor. The other block, at only one level, accommodates inside the workrooms and all classrooms. Then the kindergarten has all spaces for child directly related to outer space game.