To demolish an existing building that is part of a unitary system, with a clear and strong identity.
\nTo create a new building, on the same site, that develops real connections with the existing constructions, with the area, with the landscape.
\nTo remain in between a natural and a mineral landscape.
\nTo settle in the place and enjoy its light, its nature, its generous spaces.
\nWhy change the music when we play the same pentagram?
\nWhy change the route when we wish to get to the same port?
\nWe believe that the C building must interact with the existing. It must not represent a breaking point but an element that highlights the connection between its ground floor and the park. It must tell a story and, in order to do it, it is equipped with facades that are developed differently according to the sun exposure and position…
\nThe building can then appear as if it was already there to give an added value to the existing system. Yet, this new construction will offer strongly increased quality and performances to the campus of the Central School.
\nFrame, rhythm, sequence, transparency, half-transparency, opacity. Matter meets the building\u2019s capacity to react with light in order to make it alive, to make it part of the place.
\nThe brightness of the interiors create an immediate and efficient connection with the building’s use, may it be floor by floor or in its entirety. The central heart then becomes the vertical backbone of the specific programs (auditorium on the ground floor, simulation rooms on the first floor and administrative offices on the second one).
\nMatter is both vibrating and matte. Nature then “enters” the south facade, looking for continuity with the park.
\nThe ground floor is open and covered, there where the entrance to the auditorium and the classrooms are directly accessible. The auditorium is immediately connected to the park. It has nothing to do with a simple juxtaposition of elements but it is rather a place open to nature and light, served by a vertical system that highlights the specific areas of the building.
\nA building with its own identity.
\nAn identity to belong to.
\nA sense of belonging to identify with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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