-Scape Adaptors

AR-TUR 2014.03.22

Society Buildings

which build Society

NURESRY SCHOOL

IN COVOLO

International Competition

1st PRIZE - BUILT

GOLD MEDAL OF ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE FOR EDUCATION 2006, WINNER

FARBDESIGNPREIS, M�UNCHEN, HONORABLE MENTION

PREMIO ODERZO 2006, HONORABLE MENTION

Pedemontana is a sequence of spaces:

imagine ‘worlds among them’

We worked with a belief in the gradual

revealing by a building-in-formation

of its own rules for its required form

Alison Smithson, 1961

Fluxes and flexibility

Intervisibility = Imagining possible worlds

Intervisibility = Possibility of learning by copying

The Colour code lets the children move

indipendently through the space

… the

woodmade

entrance

path

bumps

under the

children’s

feet

physically

perceived as

a threshold

before

entering the

school

It is made of 2 syllabi: AD+APT

APT:

1. An element in intercultural contact

2. A soft-tecnology which permits a dialogue

3. It allows connections and creates understanding preserving the IDENTITY of each system

AD:

1. It is something added to something existing;

2. It is an adversiment having to do with communication but also with manipulation

The ADAPTOR is a physical configuration of a translation

PRIMARY SCHOOL

IN PONZANO

International Competition

1st PRIZE - BUILT

SFIDE 2009 AWARD of the italian Ministry of Environment, WINNER

EQUIVIVERE AWARD, WINNER

WA AWARD 7TH CYCLE, WINNER

INOPERA 2011-2012, WINNER

The technological

solutions, such as

the natural pre-heated

ventilation were the most

diffcult things to

explain…

1.14 YOUTH CENTRE

IN FONTANIVA

1.14 The Kite

PRIMARY SCHOOL

IN CHIARANO

The Third and The Seventh

Alex Roman

The Golden Well

Our is a collective time.

The work of the autonomous artisan

is being replaced with teamwork and

people have to be prepared for this

collaboration where there is no hierarchy

separating designers from producers

FROM USERS.

Only then can we recover the joy of

moral participation in a work.

Lina Bo Bardi, 1958