Franco Marro School, Villar Perosa
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)