New Zugliano School, Designing, building a school is a public event. Therefore, we conceived a building that is both representative and functional, recognizable and simple, with the capability to dialogue with the territory and the landscape, but secure and protective. Two territorial elements give birth to the project: the area’s horizontal line; mountains and hills’ profile. The project’s theme is to exploit these conditions in order to build a representative and functional building, a system able to declare his belonging to the context, strengthening its own characteristics.
photography by © Ernesta Caviola
A society that decides to act and participate, begins with the construction of schools. A community that believes in the school as a major public building and self-representation is a community that interacts with history, with the collective sentiments and the future.Designing, building a school is a public event. We have therefore imagined a building that was both representative, functional and recognizable, featured with the ability to communicate with the territory and the landscape, but protected and protective at the same time. The project stems from the territorial elements: the horizontal line of the lot, its green, the profile of the mountains, the hills, and the sky.
photography by © Ernesta Caviola
Project Info:
Architects: Alfonso Femia
Location: Zugliano Vicenza, Italy
Year: 2013
Type: Educational
Photographs: Ernesta Caviola
Services Engineering: Ai Studio, Ai Engineering s.r.l, Lorenzo Morra, Carlo Micono, Rosamaria Miraglino, Stefano Cremo
Structural Engineering: IQuadro ingegneria
Environmental Engineering: Ai Engineering s.r.l, Ai Studio, Lorenzo Morra, Carlo Micono, Rosamaria Miraglino, Stefano Cremo
Architect In Charge: Alfonso Femia, Gianluca Peluffo, Diego Peruzzo, Alessandro Cavaleri
Design Team: Alessandro Bellus, Luca Bonsignorio, Simonetta Cenci, Marco Corazza, Gabriele Filippi, Sara Gottardo, Sara Massa, Valeria Parodi, Nicola Spinetto, Sara Traverso
Collaborators: Emanuela Bartolini, Francesco Busto, Gianmatteo Ferlin, Elena Graziano, Valentina Grimaldi, Fabio Marchiori, Carola Picasso
Overall Coordination: Simonetta Cenci
Project Responsible: Stefania Bracco
Engineering Coordination: Roberto Mancini
Client: Comune di Zugliano
Cost: 4,2 M euro
Model: La casa dell’arte Albisola, Danilo Trogu
Renderings: ©5+1AA
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