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Other Projects by Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto
The Rainbow School
PROJECT FOR A KINDERGARTEN IN PRATO, ITALY.
AWARDS:
World Architecture Community Awards, Third Cycle, 2009, winning project.
PUBLICATIONS:
Eden for Boys & Girls (HongKong: Designerbooks), 2012. Architecture+Conception (Shanghai: IfengSpace), 2011.
FEATURED PROJECT:
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> DESIGN TEAM:
Alessandro Calvi Rollino, architect
Micaela Tolio, collaborator
> Sense of Place, Sustainable Architecture, Architecture & Pedagogy
The project required building a 6-classroom kindergarten in two phases, prioritizing the existing natural landscape, minimizing environmental impact, incorporating sustainable building solutions, and addressing pedagogical issues. The surrounding landscape has a significant influence on the project; the building's main glass façade is oriented southward due to bioclimatic reasons, including radiant heating and solar photovoltaic modules, and the space between the façade and the adjacent artificial green hill forms a corridor that frames the agricultural landscape in the background. The outdoor space flowing into the school has a psycho-pedagogical function since children feel comfortable with the view of a familiar landscape: Learning is made easier. The school serves as a symbolic hub for children's lives, and the RainbowFaçade, which encourages play and sparks imagination, makes it a landmark. Materials and colors have some pedagogical purposes with particular interest to visual, acoustic, haptic, olfactory, and ecological qualities. The activity rooms are set within a high, glass-curving volume; their structure is made of timber, while the envelope is rough lime plaster, and the finishing floor is linoleum; common floor spaces are covered with solid oak (indoor) and Ipè (outdoor), and the facility spaces are clad in reddish-brown copper. Each activity inside the school has its own peculiar space for color and materials so that the children easily understand differences and hierarchies among the spaces.The building expands horizontally across the allotment, featuring a high glass volume that serves as a plaza for common activities, while the classrooms and facility spaces, including the service department, teachers' office, parents' room, and storage, are incorporated into it.
AWARDS:
World Architecture Community Awards, Third Cycle, 2009, winning project.
PUBLICATIONS:
Eden for Boys & Girls (HongKong: Designerbooks), 2012. Architecture+Conception (Shanghai: IfengSpace), 2011.
FEATURED PROJECT:
architypesource.com
> DESIGN TEAM:
Alessandro Calvi Rollino, architect
Micaela Tolio, collaborator
> Sense of Place, Sustainable Architecture, Architecture & Pedagogy
The project required building a 6-classroom kindergarten in two phases, prioritizing the existing natural landscape, minimizing environmental impact, incorporating sustainable building solutions, and addressing pedagogical issues. The surrounding landscape has a significant influence on the project; the building's main glass façade is oriented southward due to bioclimatic reasons, including radiant heating and solar photovoltaic modules, and the space between the façade and the adjacent artificial green hill forms a corridor that frames the agricultural landscape in the background. The outdoor space flowing into the school has a psycho-pedagogical function since children feel comfortable with the view of a familiar landscape: Learning is made easier. The school serves as a symbolic hub for children's lives, and the RainbowFaçade, which encourages play and sparks imagination, makes it a landmark. Materials and colors have some pedagogical purposes with particular interest to visual, acoustic, haptic, olfactory, and ecological qualities. The activity rooms are set within a high, glass-curving volume; their structure is made of timber, while the envelope is rough lime plaster, and the finishing floor is linoleum; common floor spaces are covered with solid oak (indoor) and Ipè (outdoor), and the facility spaces are clad in reddish-brown copper. Each activity inside the school has its own peculiar space for color and materials so that the children easily understand differences and hierarchies among the spaces.The building expands horizontally across the allotment, featuring a high glass volume that serves as a plaza for common activities, while the classrooms and facility spaces, including the service department, teachers' office, parents' room, and storage, are incorporated into it.
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