The
project for the San Vito di Cadore school complex, entered in an
International competition in conjunction with Alessandro Sacchet and
Krej engineering, is based on visual and emotional relations with the
mountain peaks of the Dolomites and spatial and physical relations
between children and the setting.
The
three planned purposes for the complex (i.e. a nursery school,
primary school and multipurpose town council hall) were treated as
three separate and divided functions, which may however be connected
together.
The
building plan, which covers 979 m2
of a plot of land of 2790 m2,
is designed in a "C"-shape, opening up towards the east to
embrace the mountains.
The
built part of the project was developed around an archetype, the
simple image of the kind of house elevation all children have in
mind, i.e. a pentagon formed out horizontal base, two vertical walls
and the two sloping pitches of the roof. This form was then
stretched out and elongated along the most sloping section and then
repeated several times in different sizes according to the various
functions contained.
Children
will find their own homely environment inside each little individual
''house '' scaled to their size and connected to their roots.
Each
structure is enveloped in wooden cladding, a protected shell holding
the spaces and functions and, at the same time, defining the overall
image of the project.