Nautilus Nursery and Kindergarten
Bassano
Nautilus, AMFSnaps corporate nursery and kindergartenBassano, Vicenza A building adjacent to the southwest corner of the new production plant complex is dedicated to the AmfSnaps children’s corporate facility. The two-story volume is made of wood structure. The two floors are closely related, visually and functionally, inside and out. At the entrance, the main staircase is […]
Jiabei Xuhui Nursery
Shanghai
Jiabei Xuhui Nursery Shanghai The project was commissioned by Julia Gabriel Centre, a Singaporean company that creates and manages educational facilities in various Asian countries.The conversion as a nursery of a former police station in the French Concession district in downtown Shanghai required special care to make the building’s spaces suitable for a use very […]
Istituto degli Innocenti Garden
Florence
Istituto degli Innocenti GardenFlorence With its six centuries of history, the Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence is the most ancient institution dedicated to child welfare. The structure hosting it, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, expresses the founding aims of Renaissance architecture.Behind the buildings of the complex is the Giardino Grande, a public park space of great […]
Montalto Nursery and Kindergarten
Laterina Pergine Valdarno, Arezzo
Montalto Nursery and KindergartenLaterina Pergine Valdarno, Arezzo The new Montalto preschool center takes the place of a pre-existing kindergarten.It is located in a raised position in a beautiful oak forest. The volume has a simple geometry. The floor plan is rectangular in shape, with recesses along the longer sides. The roof has two asymmetrical pitches: […]
Pietraporzia Nursery
Frascati, Rome
Pietraporzia NurseryFrascati, Rome The new nursery of Frascati is a stage in the research on spaces dedicated to children that has been conducted since 2000. It is the first project built after the completion of the study conducted for the Tuscany Region and published as Guide for the Design of early childhood educational care facilities.The […]
Primary School
Piano di Sorrento, Naples
Primary School Piano di Sorrento, Naples Design competition – second prize The school is an ensemble of distinct and recognisable buildings.They are built back from the street so as to create a new ‘piazza’, a square. This new public space is the school’s urban extension, a sign of the opening of the new school to […]
Chiocciola Nursery
San Miniato, Pisa
Chiocciola NurserySan Miniato, Pisa San Miniato is renowned both in Italy and worldwide for its excellence in creating early childhood care facilities. The Chiocciola is the most recent. The new building has simple lines that blend in with the houses in the surrounding town of Roffia.The layout of the space is innovative even compared to […]
Manual Waste Sorting Platform
Isla Margarita, Venezuela
Manual Waste Sorting PlatformIsla Margarita, Venezuela The platform is located inside a bio-mechanical waste treatment plant. It shelters the work of men and women who previously found sustenance in clandestinely scavenging the landfill that once occupied the area.In the new plant, 40 workers sort the waste material as it advances on a conveyor belt. The […]
Ecoparque Norte
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ecoparque NorteBuenos Aires, Argentina International competition for the design, construction and management of a bio-waste management plant in the northern area of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires – winning project Ecoparque Norte, the new bio-waste management plant in Northern Buenos Aires, was designed to blend technological efficiency with good industrial architecture and correct integration […]
Design for GAM
Design for GAM The long and still ongoing relationship with GAM Gonzaga Arredi Montessori concerns the design of dozens of objects and of furniture for early childhood care facilities and schools.Each project is based on the observation of children and of their daily life in educational centres, and is further supported by dialogue with educators […]