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Architects: Alberto Campo Baeza
- Area: 1868 m²
- Year: 2006
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Photographs:Hisao Suzuki
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.
![Benetton Nursery / Alberto Campo Baeza - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5008/eac9/28ba/0d27/a700/0c62/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414088787)
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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