PNRR COMPETITION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING

The project corresponds to a building replacement of the existing school in the municipality of Capoterra, now obsolete. The new school is designed for 128 students and is conceived as a complement to the nearby kindergarten. The volumetric layout is different in relation to the internal function: classrooms and gym. The volumes are further distinguished by the different external textures of the finishing materials: cork for the gym, light plaster for the rest of the building. This creates a space between the street and the new complex of buildings, organized as a square, a new meeting point for the neighborhood. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between the full and empty spaces of the facades and to the natural lighting of the rooms: the wall facing the street of the gym is planned with perforated sheet metal cladding in order to screen the internal vertical windows thus ensuring discreet and diffused internal lighting with the zenithal skylights, while the windows in correspondence with the classrooms and the canteen are large in size to ensure visual continuity between the interior of the rooms and the surrounding landscape. The internal spaces of the school, both the connective spaces and the classrooms, are designed to ensure first of all meeting and relationship spaces. The distribution corridor that connects the different functions of the building is characterized by niches with internal seats, the connective spaces facing the classrooms are characterized by glass openings, colored corners with soft seats, sketch wall, as well as inside the classrooms, the environment wants to be varied and welcoming.

The building is characterized by the use of structural solutions with a high level of prefabrication with the use as much as possible of so-called “dry” technologies and finishes in order to significantly reduce construction times compared to a traditional building and guarantee accurate execution of the works, a precondition for the durability of the intervention over time.

From the point of view of environmental insertion, the project is part of an already built lot, a fragment of an ancient olive grove bordered towards the Rio San Girolamo by typical Mediterranean vegetation composed of eucalyptus. The new building aims to enhance these pre-existing features by implementing them with other native trees, organizing the floor plan of the classrooms with their direct view of the Mediterranean scrub that borders the internal courtyard towards the Rio San Girolamo.