Primary school

Description

The new school in Caslano is made up of three separate buildings. What connects these units, designed to accommodate over two hundred pupils and teachers? The central space, designed as a walkway and distribution pathway, uniting the three blocks to form a single entity.
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• Year of delivery

  2018

• Location

  Caslano Switzerland

• Architect / signatory

  Adolfo Zanetti

• Project owner

  Town hall of Tessin - Suisse

• Photograph

  Luis Asin

• Product name

  Classic brick

• Product form

  Standard

• Epidermis texture

  Hand-Moulded

• Surface appearance

  Plain natural

• Color

  M.1.102

• Work

  New

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Titre d'article

Light and airy blocks

Corps d'article

The architects, Adolfo Zanetti, Lucia Ravagni and Alvise Marzollo, winners of the two-stage competition to award the design contract for this school, also devised a visual link: 40,000 MAAX facing bricks cover the façades, giving a uniform overall look through the material and colour alike. The impression of a solid block is lessened through the addition of wide openings. The design of the first floor, overhanging the glazed ground floor, as though levitating, adds great elegance to this architectural triptych. A project where material form and lightness complement and balance one another for ultimate harmony.
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The word of

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Interview

Adolfo Zanetti, Lucia Ravagni and Alvise Marzollo.
“These buildings are the result of a fruitful collaboration with Terreal SanMarco, whose patient work produced the specific colour we sought so they would fit into their environment perfectly. We chose bricks in a special 11.5 x 49 x 4 cm format, produced using traditional, soft cut technology and installed with 2 cm spacing. The idea was really to fit in completely with the backdrop provided by Caslano, where nature and water are ever-present.”