Nautilus Nursery and Kindergarten
Bassano del Grappa
Nautilus, AMF corporate nursery and kindergartenBassano del Grappa, Vicenza A building adjacent to the southwest corner of the new production plant complex is dedicated to the AMF 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 […]
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 […]
Belmonte Preschool Centre
Bagno a Ripoli
Belmonte Preschool CentreBagno a Ripoli, Firenze The Belmonte preschool centre consists of two separate buildings: a nursery and a kindergarten.This layout derives from the project process, which originally included only the nursery, to which the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRP) later allowed a kindergarten to be added.The nursery and kindergarten are almost twin mirror […]
Montalto Preschool Center
Laterina Pergine Valdarno
Montalto Preschool CenterLaterina 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: the […]
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 […]
Primary School and Kindergarten
Olbia
Primary School and KindergartenOlbia 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 place […]
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 […]
New Beleduc furniture
New Beleduc furniture line for nurseries and preschools Beleduc is part of the Hape group. The project for a new line of furniture for preschools was developed in China, for the global market, starting from South-East Asia and Oceania.The goal is to build serene and bright environments, suitable for welcoming children.Children are the center of […]
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: […]
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 […]