Pietraporzia Nursery, Frascati, Rome

Pietraporzia Nursery, Frascati, 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 […]

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 […]

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 Nursery, San 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 […]

Manual Waste Sorting Platform, Isla Margarita, Venezuela

Manual Waste Sorting Platform, Isla 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. […]

Ecoparque Norte, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ecoparque Norte, Buenos 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 […]

Istituto degli Innocenti Garden, Florence

Istituto degli Innocenti Garden, Florence 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 […]

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 […]

Urban Playground, Guimaraes, Portugal

Urban Playground, Guimaraes, Portugal Ideas competition Performance Architecture The project was a contestant in the competition launched on the occasion of the Guimaraes 2012 European Capital of Culture.The proposal was to utilize as public space the surface of the vats of the old Couros tanneries, a truly inspiring and materic location close to the city’s […]

Expansion of the Liceo Ariosto Upper Secondary School, Ferrara

Expansion of the Liceo Ariosto Upper Secondary School, Ferrara The building expands the upper secondary school built in the 1970’s by Melograni, Giura Longo and Martines. It contains 12 new classrooms and a library that is used also for extra-curricular activities.The new addition closes in the school campus along the street, via Arianuova. The school […]