{"headings":["Desgning for the community","Natural Solutions"," ","Evergreen"," ","Programatic Belvedere"],"paragraphs":["Its immediate neighbors are a small water line to the north and Via Manieri that flanks it to the southeast. The school building is the first public equipment with which the learner contacts as a user, hence a first educational experience lies within the framework of respect for a collective good, an object with rules of coexistence and use that must endure throughout the life as citizens. And also, the community owes to the school building an equal attitude of appreciation and affection for what it represents as an initiatory and symbolic pole of citizenship and personal accomplishment.","It is also an important premisse to seek conscious enviromental choices when designing such a building. Therefore, the project seeks to induce a recharge of groundwater through strategies of water fixation in soils that go from the maximization of the permeable areas occupied by arboreal, shrub and herbaceous vegetation, to the use of porous floors. These are the key issues for the prevention of soil erosion, which in this case are extremely vulnerable to the steep slopes of the hill."," ","The idea that a school building has the characteristics normally required of a teacher, seems at first sight, illogical. Its architecture is supposed to be silent, unchanging and at the same time capable of surviving its use, for a definite or undetermined time. However, a building is able to communicate ideas, perceptions and knowledge as well as a teacher. It is from this concept of an anonymous container, of an assembly space, of Agora, that the project for the School Campus of Gignano - Torretta - S.Elia in L'Aquila is born."," ","The design promotes the idea of a unitary space, socially inclusive and programmatically open that develops and articulates with the exterior spaces. It is a volume that raises from the different altimetric dimensions and topography of the lot, like a belvedere. Given the Northern orientation of the lot (whose light is considered exceptional for school and work spaces), the rooftop garden is marked by the presence of several courtyards that will complement with natural lighting from the South and create outer spaces more sheltered from the dominant winds. "]}