REGENERATION OF THE SCHOOL COMPLEX

The intention of the Municipality of Legnago is the implementation of a large-scale regeneration and strengthening intervention of the school complex for the «creation of a single complex, modern, functional and responsive to the needs of the territory». The intervention involves the construction of two school buildings and a gym through two temporally distinct demolition and construction phases. The entire complex is characterized by 3 functional blocks, 2 for school use and 1 block for sports activities.

Particular attention was paid to the construction of the gym so that it would become the base of the building, the space for the school and extracurricular community. The gym communicates with the atrium through a filter environment and extends beyond the courtyard square to signal its presence and openness to the neighborhood. Two 200 m2 modules form a space that can be easily divided to accommodate the activities of multiple classes, or can be combined to form a regulation playing field. Four changing rooms of different sizes, served by a second access dedicated to guest users, adapt to contemporary use and the needs of more or less numerous groups, inside or outside the school.

The continuous and superficial foundations guarantee excellent responses to seismic action and a uniform load distribution, suitable for the geomorphological characteristics of the soil and the low depth of the water table. The roof of the gym is supported by large laminated wood beams, while the pitched roof of the school has a load-bearing structure made of X-lam type wooden panels. The structural elements subject to seismic action are calculated assuming a “dissipative” type of behavior, to avoid brittle failure mechanisms, respect the resistance hierarchy criteria and exploit the plastic behavior of the materials.