Franco Marro School, Villar Perosa
Villar Perosa, Franco Marro Combined Elementary, Primary, Middle School (1)

1. Inside recreation garden

Villar Perosa, Franco Marro Combined Elementary, Primary, Middle School (2)

2. Classroom




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This single-storey building is designed to cater for new teaching and pedagogical methods. It features a square building plan with a central courtyard surrounded by classrooms to provide instant outside recreation space. A perimeter corridor provides inside links and connections. Its innovative plant-engineering works around solar panels arranged like "sails" at all four corners of the building. The lighting design focuses on the quality and style of the appliances that act as leit-motifs to give the spaces and functions their own distinctive look and provide diffused lighting with excellent luminescence ratings. Pairs of "Dado" wall appliances have been placed in the corridor, while a "Kodo" (Fontana Arte) ceiling fixture creates playful patterns of large bubbles in the classrooms. The teaching units, marking the bounds at all four corners, feature indirect lighting from wall projectors giving off "Platea"-style (iGuzzini) asymmetric beams of light.
Villar Perosa, Italy
(In collaboration w/ Arch. F. Fenaroli, G. Aulenti)
Piero Castiglioni