Article source: 429 ARCHITETTURA

The educational environment must be a sort of aquarium where the ideas, the morality, the attitudes, the cultures of the people who live there are reflected.

Loris Malaguzzi

The enlargement of the Zanti Infant School in Brescello is born from the Administration's desire to bring together the sections currently located in various municipal offices into a single structure. The idea of ​​the project is the reinterpretation of the stylistic features found in the children's drawings, where the landscape, the simplicity of the geometries and the sun, primary source of illumination and psychophysical well-being, are always represented in evidence. The archetype of the small house located in the green takes shape in two independent volumes, as the number of enlargement sections, with pure geometries and surrounded by the existing park. The sun exposure, the presence of numerous valuable trees and the desire to break down the least possible, generates the rotation of the volume of a section. The result is the creation of opposing overviews where the threshold between inside and outside is very weak.

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• Architects: 429 ARCHITETTURA (Francesco Pergetti Architetto)
• Project: Kindergarten Zanti
• Location: Brescello, Italy
• Photography: OperaVisual
• Built Area (m2 or sqft).: 500 mq
• Completion Year: Rescricted competition 2018_FIRST PRIZE

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