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NO-STOP SCHOOL
NO-STOP SCHOOL. Cover - Abstract
Educational institutions have had their operations severely disrupted by a global pandemic that has made in-person and public interaction taboo.
This project prompts a critical and proactive reflection on one of the phenomena triggered by the coronavirus pandemic which, as we write, still finds us in an emergency phase but also compels us to address possible scenarios for a tomorrow that needs to start soon.
Kindergartens’ and primary schools’ architectural forms will not be of little importance in contributing to an effective response to the pandemic problem. But we need to propose models, between future and historical tradition, through a process of circumstantial criticism of the neo-liberal dynamics and the ever more fragile relationship between anthropization and nature.
We have therefore set the goal of understanding, researching and developing the forms of an innovative school that is as resilient and resistant as possible to phenomena such as the current health crisis, but also apt to face future critical scenarios.
A new "existenz minimum" suitable also for quarantine conditions needs to be reformulated, combined with fast adaptability, re-programmability, the undoing of traditional functions and fringes, and temporary density changes.
We are convinced that the combination of architecture and pedagogy must provide general solutions, but open to the many different realities of local contexts. No justification for fleeing from school architecture now persists, no more room for the clichés of the “sustainable city” or the "green architecture."
But how can we redefine in spatial terms an idea of a school that is animated by community intent and at the same time capable of protecting individuals? Our approach assumes the logic of the inside-out and recognizes the “in-between” spaces as the matrix that can foreshadow new architecture and urbanscapes. The perimeters of already existing buildings, the thickening of wall vestments, the habitability of threshold spaces can become from places of transition, deep habitable loggias, new mechanisms of a connection between inside and outside that is not only virtual but also physical. These in-between spaces outfitted with technological equipment will be able to accommodate and protect the inhabitants of these essential spaces for living.
VALENTI & ZULIANI, April 2020
Educational institutions have had their operations severely disrupted by a global pandemic that has made in-person and public interaction taboo.
This project prompts a critical and proactive reflection on one of the phenomena triggered by the coronavirus pandemic which, as we write, still finds us in an emergency phase but also compels us to address possible scenarios for a tomorrow that needs to start soon.
Kindergartens’ and primary schools’ architectural forms will not be of little importance in contributing to an effective response to the pandemic problem. But we need to propose models, between future and historical tradition, through a process of circumstantial criticism of the neo-liberal dynamics and the ever more fragile relationship between anthropization and nature.
We have therefore set the goal of understanding, researching and developing the forms of an innovative school that is as resilient and resistant as possible to phenomena such as the current health crisis, but also apt to face future critical scenarios.
A new "existenz minimum" suitable also for quarantine conditions needs to be reformulated, combined with fast adaptability, re-programmability, the undoing of traditional functions and fringes, and temporary density changes.
We are convinced that the combination of architecture and pedagogy must provide general solutions, but open to the many different realities of local contexts. No justification for fleeing from school architecture now persists, no more room for the clichés of the “sustainable city” or the "green architecture."
But how can we redefine in spatial terms an idea of a school that is animated by community intent and at the same time capable of protecting individuals? Our approach assumes the logic of the inside-out and recognizes the “in-between” spaces as the matrix that can foreshadow new architecture and urbanscapes. The perimeters of already existing buildings, the thickening of wall vestments, the habitability of threshold spaces can become from places of transition, deep habitable loggias, new mechanisms of a connection between inside and outside that is not only virtual but also physical. These in-between spaces outfitted with technological equipment will be able to accommodate and protect the inhabitants of these essential spaces for living.
VALENTI & ZULIANI, April 2020
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