Fagnano Olona Elementary School

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Fagnano Olona Elementary School
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Architect: Aldo Rossi
Year(s) of construction: 1972-1976
Location: Varese, Italy
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Introduction

This work demonstrates the continuity of the historical monuments Typologies in which condenses the history and rituals of a collective culture.

The works of architect permanently refer to history, everything is designed from its historical concerns, regardless of the peculiarities of the implementation or the characteristics of users.


Situation

Located in Varese, the capital of the eponymous province, in Lombardy, Italy.


Meaning

The central concept of this project is to make a small town, this city is developed around a central plaza with two levels. This place is like a theater with tiers in this theater are open political demonstrations, lectures and meetings.


Description

The school

Responds to a classic type: the classrooms are arranged along wings emerging on both sides of a central body. This body is grouped around a courtyard, the central building.

Respects the central axis of symmetry, and reinforced by the location of the circular building of the library in the middle of the courtyard and in the service of the district.

In the first body was found the premises of the address of the doctor and canteens. Immediately after the classrooms are twenty-two, which are developed through a central axis by series-oriented east-southeast rigorously.

At the top is the gym.

The library is a cylinder topped by a conical roof in the middle of a courtyard, fireplace tapered trunk also assumes an abstract monument. The windows of this volume are square.

The road in front of the school has a symbolic value, made with brick factory, the old factories, which connects the school with the meaning of the industrial landscape that surrounds it.


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