New School Complex in Florence’s interland

The project aimed to plan a new school complex able to include a preschool and a primary school inside an irregular slope.

REQUIREMENTS:
. Two different type of school with a common area
. Use the climb of 5 meters to create something innovative

PROPOSAL:
Two separate buildings have been designed and placed in a way to create a central public court connected to the back park and the two entrances of the respective buildings.
School classes, common space and service areas of the primary school have been distributed on two stories, instead, the preschool is developed on a single level with a free-access rooftop garden from the park.
A colonnade on each internal side of the two building, articulate the space that the two constructions have created and recall the typical local characteristic of the place.

Client

Municipality of Sesto Fiorentino

Sesto Fiorentino, known locally as just Sesto, is a municipality (comune) in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, central Italy.
The oldest known human settlement in the area dates from the Mesolithic (c. 9,000 years ago). The Etruscan presence is known from the 7th century BC, but the town proper was created by the Romans as Sextus ab urbe lapis ("Sixth mile from the Town Milestone").
The first churches were built in the early Middle Ages, among which the most important became the Pieve of San Martino. Sesto Fiorentino was subject to the Archbishop of Florence. Later it was under the Florentine Republic, which dried the plain and boosted the area's economy starting from the Renaissance age.