EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS MASTERPLAN

Neom, Saudi Arabia

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INFO
Masterplan of an education, school and university campus
Neom (Saudi Arabia)
project 2021
program: Project of a school campus including university facilites, elementary school, co-educational schools, gym, a library, conference hall and auditorium, dining halls, social areas, playground facilities, student housing and green area and parks
surface: 153.000 sqm
contracting authority: NEOM
project: Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia with Metrogramma
images: ©Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia & Diorama
“Physical space at school is an integral part of a democratic education which intends to offer everyone the same opportunities. The design ability to reconcile architecture and teaching generates places to inhabit rather than spatial perimeters for learning.
Reflection, learning, relationship, play, aspirations: five words that describe a system designed for real people and not for anonymous users and that, therefore, needs designed places in a manner consistent with this layered vision.
The school building, interpreted as an active space for education, is the competence of architecture, but also of pedagogy and didactics. It is from the comparison between the disciplines that an idea of school is outlined, synchronized with social evolution.”
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UNIVERSALITY OF THE PROJECT
The project speaks a universal language. The design of the gardens around the world were created starting from the typical landscape design of the Persian tradition and, through the numerous commercial exchanges, the Persian gardens were the first gardens to boast a huge selection of
‘exotic’ plants. This is why they can be seen as universal gardens; anyone from Europe recognizes something of their own culture in these spaces, as people overseas can admire their perfectly acclimatized plants.
The language of tradition has never been so modern, communicating with all the cultures of the world and naturally fitting into a new and innovative project, giving it a timeless order and image, as if it had always been there and giving the impression that will be there forever.

Boarding School and Lower/Elementary Day school Campus project, even if located in different geographic areas, are both based on the same principles of modularity and flexibility and possible growth.
These are modular and self-sufficient “projects – systems” that can spontaneously connect to different existing urban context, they can develop according to different chronological phases or they can integrate any new future functions with maximum flexibility.