Casavatore – The school for tomorrow's Italy: the new “Benedetto Croce” education center. The Hon. Mario Casillo (pictured): “Administration committed to solving problems for the community”.
Record turnout at the presentation of the program of interventions with the exhibition of models and the projection of slides and videos. The public meeting on the topic was held yesterday at the council chamber "Dario Scherillo" of the town hall, in Piazza Di Nocera.
The initiative aimed to present the project for the new school building in the historic center, closed for two years, financed with funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNNR).
The demonstration was attended by a large audience, city councilors and assessors, the mayor, Luigi Maglione, the councilor for school buildings of the Democratic Party, Elsa Picaro and the councilor for PNNR funds, Carmelo Legorano.
Also speaking were architect Alberto Calderoni, scientific consultant of the Federico II University of Naples, architect Luigiemanuele Amabile, leader of the temporary group of companies that will carry out the work, and architect Salvatore Pesarino of the company Archliving srl.
Closing the event, the Hon. Mario Casillo, regional councilor of Campania, who wanted to point out that: “Investing in schools means investing in the development and growth of a community! In Casavatore, thanks to PNRR funds, the Benedetto Croce Institute, which has been closed since February 2022 due to unfitness, will be demolished and rebuilt. Thanks to the efforts of the municipal administration, the new school will be built in the historic center. A modern and functional infrastructure at the service of the community!”.
The new school building, which will replace the existing one - lacking equipment and services and inadequate from a plant and structural point of view - aims to meet current and future educational needs both from a physical and spatial point of view, ensuring adequate architectural solutions, and in terms of energy efficiency and environmental impact, in order to obtain a safe, inclusive school, capable of promoting the reduction of consumption and emissions, offering safety from earthquakes and intrusions, a greater implementation of green areas serving the school and the entire city so as to impact the sustainable development of the territory and increase the provision of services, aimed at enhancing the life of the community that resides in the surrounding areas.
It all starts following a two-phase design competition – Scuola Futura – promoted by the Ministry of Education and Merit in 2022, the building of the “Benedetto Croce” Comprehensive Institute will be demolished and rebuilt in accordance with the most recent Guidelines for the design and construction of innovative school buildings.
“Designing a new school – Democratic Party councilor Elsa Picaro clarified – is an incredible opportunity to rethink and design a space in the city that is not only a place for children's education but first and foremost a physical and immaterial space for aggregation for the construction of a new civic and community identity.
Architecture has the great power to regenerate, with its forms, abandoned or highly degraded urban spaces: being able to reactivate a transformation process through an architecture that is also a new school represents a precious opportunity for the entire community”.
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Article published on March 24, 2024 - 12pm
