The 70% of school buildings were built before 1975 in Italy. The ageing of the structures and the inadequacy in terms of seismic safety and energy performance represent an emergency to be managed but also a great opportunity for the renewal of teaching spaces.
Rethinking school complexes as new civic centres equipped with libraries, auditoriums and aggregation spaces is the new challenge and redevelopment can become a capillary engine of real urban regeneration.
This experiment has taken shape in the project “Torino fa scuola”, a public and private initiative together, promoted by Fondazione Agnelli and Compagnia di San Paolo, in collaboration with the City of Turin and Fondazione per la Scuola.
The project of Archisbang Architecture Firm and Area Progetti for the secondary school Giovanni Pascoli is a model for the redevelopment of a school in a period building.
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