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 […]

Chiocciola Nursery
San Miniato

Chiocciola Municipal 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 […]

Pietraporzia Nursery,
Frascati

Pietraporzia Municipal 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 […]

Campanello Nursery
Capri

Campanello Municipal NurseryCapri, Naples “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 […]

Spazzolino Nursery
Anacapri

Spazzolino Municipal Nursery Anacapri, Naples The ‘Spazzolino’ nursery of Anacapri is one of a series of projects for the Prisma cooperative of Meta. The aim of this cooperation is to create quality services in Southern Italy that may contribute in disseminating and promoting the culture of childcare services.Spazzolino is the first nursery of the Island […]

Primary School
Piano di Sorrento

Primary SchoolPiano di Sorrento, Naples Design competition – second prize The School is an Articulated Building, Composed of Distinct and Recognizable Structures.the Volumes are Set Back from the Street Line to Define a New Square. This New Public Space is the “Urban Extension of the Complex, Marking the” Opening of a Renovated School that Presents […]

Expansion of the Liceo Ariosto Upper Secondary School
Ferrara

Expansion of the Liceo Ariosto Upper Secondary SchoolFerrara 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 is […]