Description

Another one of Bellini’s “urban islands”.

A context of unexciting liveliness standing out only for the presence of green and the river suggests the idea of a free-form building covered by a façade of wooden slats running horizontally.

This building, which contains the general services, faces out onto the green and defines on one side the “internal square” of the campus.

A long connecting arcade, laid out in a semicircle, accompanies the other side of the square and connects the two buildings where the teaching halls are located: two “open courtyards” that correspond to the different needs of the functional programme.

The free forms of the service building contrasts with the rigid language of the buildings containing the teaching areas, once again stressing the need for dialectics between public and private parts in the costruction of the cities, even in the somewhat “isolated” one of student life.

– Ermanno Ranzani –