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NSC. Nursery School Covolo
Project Featured on Apr 13, 2014
Walls
and empty spaceGOLD MEDAL OF ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE 2006 - Winner of the Section 'Education'FarbDesignPreis 2009 - Honourable MentionOderzo Architectural Prize 2006 - Honourable MentionArchitettura & Colore Prize - Honourable Mention
Immersed amongst the vineyards and wheat fields,
their rows tracing the memories of ancient crops, where space is marked
rhythmically by the stakes supporting vine shoots and loses its colourful third
dimension at the moment of ploughing time, is the small plot that hosts the
nursery school in Covolo. It appears to be the missing piece necessary to
complete the small urban centre, whose stable landmarks include the
16th-century church and bell tower, and the Dominican complex of Villa Bellati.
A collection of modest structures is linked by a continuous series of stone
walls, held intact by a thin layer of rough plaster. These walls, which
accompany us for much of the way into the centre of Pederobba defining the
boundaries between the network of roads and cultivated fields throughout the
region of the Pedemontana, run adjacent to a meandering mass of vegetation
which fills the wide gravely bed of the Piave River.
The new project required an approach that consisted
in re-writing the same however-fragile plots that have continued to preserve
the memory of the place, in anticipation of completing new portions of
landscape while simultaneously forming mental landscapes in the minds of the
children who live there. Walls and empty spaces. The new building forms an
enclosure facing south-east, looking over wheat fields and vineyards,
embracing and allowing itself to be defined by the features of the landscape. A
rough concrete wall is coloured to match the surrounding landscape, treated
with split aggregate to reflect light in a variable manner depending on its
orientation. The building is its structure: a wall.
A wall which opens to the south like the great
arches of the barchesse, the huge porticoed barns typical of the region,
revealing, at that point, the massive quality of the structure. A wall that
retracts and doubles, colouring itself ta emphasize its passages, its thresholds.
A wall that forms itself in response to the tensions of that which it encloses.
A wall that travels through the complex, smoothing out while continuing ta
guide the unfolding of the spaces.
The overhang, the stabilized Sarone gravel
paving and the lighting all expand the moment of the threshold, amplifying the
classrooms spaces towards the exterior, or bringing the garden, with its sounds
and scents, into the school. This operation of extension of the 'door', this
transformation of the threshold into an actual space become the imagination of
a possible world, different and strange, suspended between inside and out. It
represents hesitation, desire, potential, wonder.
and empty spaceGOLD MEDAL OF ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE 2006 - Winner of the Section 'Education'FarbDesignPreis 2009 - Honourable MentionOderzo Architectural Prize 2006 - Honourable MentionArchitettura & Colore Prize - Honourable Mention
Immersed amongst the vineyards and wheat fields,
their rows tracing the memories of ancient crops, where space is marked
rhythmically by the stakes supporting vine shoots and loses its colourful third
dimension at the moment of ploughing time, is the small plot that hosts the
nursery school in Covolo. It appears to be the missing piece necessary to
complete the small urban centre, whose stable landmarks include the
16th-century church and bell tower, and the Dominican complex of Villa Bellati.
A collection of modest structures is linked by a continuous series of stone
walls, held intact by a thin layer of rough plaster. These walls, which
accompany us for much of the way into the centre of Pederobba defining the
boundaries between the network of roads and cultivated fields throughout the
region of the Pedemontana, run adjacent to a meandering mass of vegetation
which fills the wide gravely bed of the Piave River.
The new project required an approach that consisted
in re-writing the same however-fragile plots that have continued to preserve
the memory of the place, in anticipation of completing new portions of
landscape while simultaneously forming mental landscapes in the minds of the
children who live there. Walls and empty spaces. The new building forms an
enclosure facing south-east, looking over wheat fields and vineyards,
embracing and allowing itself to be defined by the features of the landscape. A
rough concrete wall is coloured to match the surrounding landscape, treated
with split aggregate to reflect light in a variable manner depending on its
orientation. The building is its structure: a wall.
A wall which opens to the south like the great
arches of the barchesse, the huge porticoed barns typical of the region,
revealing, at that point, the massive quality of the structure. A wall that
retracts and doubles, colouring itself ta emphasize its passages, its thresholds.
A wall that forms itself in response to the tensions of that which it encloses.
A wall that travels through the complex, smoothing out while continuing ta
guide the unfolding of the spaces.
The overhang, the stabilized Sarone gravel
paving and the lighting all expand the moment of the threshold, amplifying the
classrooms spaces towards the exterior, or bringing the garden, with its sounds
and scents, into the school. This operation of extension of the 'door', this
transformation of the threshold into an actual space become the imagination of
a possible world, different and strange, suspended between inside and out. It
represents hesitation, desire, potential, wonder.
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