A school in Altavilla Vicentina
A school in Altavilla Vicentina
2002
- From: October 2002
- To: September 2007
- City: Altavilla Vicentina - Vicenza
- Country: Italy
- Type: school
- Area: 3500 mq
- Client: Comune di Altavilla Vicentina - VI
- Furniture design: Aldo Cibic
- Structural concept: Ing. Jurg Conzett "Chur" (CH)
In the Shadow of Children in Flower
The project includes both a pre-school and an elementary school, an indoor sports court, as well as a small theater for the community.
The school has a footprint of 3,000 sq meters, but I wished above all to achieve a sense of lightness, intimacy, and variety. A post-tensioned roof slab was elaborated with the Swiss engineer Joerg Conzett (Chur), allowing for a uniform height of 4 m. throughout the building, with no hung ceilings. Corridors, internal lightwells, wardrobes and bathrooms add color to the buoyant atmosphere of the building.
Classrooms and patios form clusters that are either located peripherally or enclosed within the building. Sliding panels with multiple metal screens sandwiched between glass panes filter daylight and create ever-changing shadows.
A small community theater of oval shape rises through the floor of the vestibule to form an elevated play hill.
Extra photos: Luisa Lambri
PRESS
Scuola Leonardo da Vinci ad Altavilla Vicentina
Young at Heart
Unitaria y comunal - Escuela infantil y primaria en Vicenza (Italia)
Kindergarten and Elementary School
All'ombra dei fanciulli in fiore
Plesso scolastico ad Altavilla Vicentina
Engaging the emphemeral
