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 […]
School Complex
Monte San Giovanni Campano
Primary school and kindergartenMonte San Giovanni Campano, Frosinone Design competition “Futura – The School for Tomorrow’s Italy,” within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan – winning project The project concerns the demolition and reconstruction of the school complex in La Lucca area. The competition-winning proposal reverses the pre-existing settlement condition: the new volumes are arranged […]
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 […]
Outdoor Educational Workshops
Rome
New outdoor educational workshops at Marymount Institute Rome The project, dedicated to primary school and kindergarten children, was created in collaboration with pedagogist and anthropologist Lidia Tavani. Two areas of the garden are transformed into workshop spaces suitable for experimenting with original practices of outdoor education.The entire surface is a composition of very different materials: […]
Campanello Nursery
Capri
Municipal Campanello NurseryCapri, Napoli “Campanello” is the first nursery in the municipality of Capri.It has found an unusual location on the ground floor of an old building halfway up the hill, not far from the harbor, on the site where a winery used to be based.The project kept in balance the respect for the morphology […]
Primary School and Kindergarten
Olbia
Primary School and Kindergarten, Olbia Design competition for the construction of innovative schools – Municipality of Olbia – second prize The project area is located opposite the parvis of a newly constructed church.The insertion of the new school deeply changes the urban design that considered the construction area as free space in front of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]