Secondary school I.P. Profagri

What: Competition Future The school for tomorrow - 1° prize - Preliminary project
Who: Ministero dell’istruzione - Piano nazionale di ripresa e resilienza (PNRR)
Where: Salerno - Italy
When: 2022-2023
AREA: 3000 sq.m
AREA49: Giacomo Penco, Marilena Magalotti, Luca Benassi, Davide Camera

The school expands its functions and is experimented as a place of attraction for the city, becoming an added value for the community; the gym, the multifunctional-library space and the canteen-food hub have independent access and are directly connected to the external green system so as to live even during extra-school hours. The flows and routes have been studied and analyzed to allow free usability. The main access to the school environments is from the large steps that delimit and amplify the "square" located to the south. While the crossing on the ground floor is free and usable with a system of paths that are structured around patios, which bring light into the building, and branch out into the cultivated fields, becoming the matrix for measuring the territory. The typical geometry of the rows of fruit trees present in the area and its orientation are in fact the basis for the development of the school building conceived as a breakdown of plots of land which when extruded, generate the volumes. This same rule designs the project area with an alternation between cultivated fields to support laboratory activities, greenhouses and outdoor rest and socialization areas. A common matrix designs and fragments the space to become an architectural landscape. Everything flows naturally, in a correspondence in which "the inside is the outside" and "the outside is the inside", just as "the above is the below" and "the below is the above". The choice not to place "delimitations" between the school area and the external space determines the possibility that this green area at level zero is also an extension of the school space, creating considerable added value to the entire project and to the school community.