School
Piano di Sorrento (SA), Italy, 2013
Stage: Competition / 2nd place
with: Giovanni Fumagalli,Francesca Canu, Lorenzo Caporro
collaborator: Anita Sala
The new school complex is developed around four main assumptions, partially driven by the urban context: 1) create a new square, 2) encourage the investment of private enterprises, 3) design core spaces, improving cohesion, 4) introduce students to new ways of informal learning.
The auditorium, the cafeteria and the gym, are located in a way that they can be used independently, without interfering with school activities. The new school complex has been divided into several volumes connected together, each of which has a size that recall the smaller scale of the surrounding buildings. To improve the integration into the landscape, the facades are made with two local materials: white plaster (indigenous of the Sorrento Coast) and the tufo stone from local quarries.