Benetton Nursery / Alberto Campo Baeza

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Ponzano Veneto, Italy

Text description provided by the architects. We built a square box composed of nine smaller squares. The center square emerges to bring light from the heights of the vestibule. The classrooms are arranged in the surrounding squares.

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This square structure is inscribed within a larger, circular enclosure made up of double circular walls. Open to the sky, four courtyards are created that suggest the four elements: air, earth, fire and water.

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The space between the perimeter walls serves as a “secret” place for the children. The courtyard spaces, tensed between the curved and the straight walls, are particularly remarkable.

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The central space, the highest and with light from above, recalls a hamman in the way it gathers sunlight through nine perforations in the ceiling and three more on each of its four façades.

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The children have understood the building well, and a book has even been published of their impressions. They are happy there.

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Address:Ponzano Veneto, Treviso, Italy

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Cite: "Benetton Nursery / Alberto Campo Baeza" 22 Apr 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/57151/benetton-kindergarden-alberto-campo-baeza> ISSN 0719-8884

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