Elementary School in Via Viscontini

Milan, Italy

Elementary School in Via Viscontini
Milan, Italy
2015

program: Project for the new school in via Viscontini in Milan made with XLam wood panels and including an auditoruim and a gym
> total area: 7 400 m2
> cover surface: 4 141 m2
client: Comune di Milano
project: Alfonso Femia * with
company: SELI Manutenzioni Generali srl
structural engineering: Sering srl
services and environmental engineering: Progettisti Associati Tecnarc srl, Stea Progetto srl
images: ©Paris Render Studio
“The three volumes that make up the school recall imaginary elements, setting up the building as a toy box, like a structure designed for and with the children.” AF
The three volumes that make up the school recall imaginary elements, setting up the building as a toy box, like a structure designed for and with the children. It is the desire to create a sense of belonging to a community (the school), to define the shapes of the building.
The gym is a box from which skylights run through the roof as wizards hats try to capture light.
The classrooms look like stacked and staggered wooden sticks that we assemble like LEGO pieces.
The roof of the library-auditorium is covered by a large dug hat that meets, at some point of contact, the part of the classrooms.
Wooden animals lining the facade of the gym build a two-dimensional theater in children’s imagination.