2009 OPEN ARCHITECTURE CHALLENGE CLASSROOM
3680 PROJECT DESCRIPTION TEXT
COMMENTO FINALE: (Scritto volutamente e provocatoriamente in italiano...)
ABBIAMO VISTO I PROGETTI SELEZIONATI E I LORO TEAMS E PARTNERS: NON C'ERA GARA! MA,CON LE RISORSE DISPONIBILI, ABBIAMO FATTO COMUNQUE MEGLIO!
ABBIAMO VOLUTO TOGLIERE I DISEGNI ESECUTIVI E LASCIARE SOLO L'IDEA NELL'AMBITO DI UNA PROTESTA SOLITARIA CONTRO L'ESITO DEL CONCORSO CHE NON HA VISTO ALCUNA IDEA VERAMENTE ORIGINALE. LA SELEZIONE E' STATA EFFETTUATA DA UNA GIURIA PLETORICA E POCO RAPPRESENTATIVA DELL'EUROPA E DEL MONDO DELLA SCUOLA MA CERTAMENTE TROPPO DEL MONDO DELL'IMPRESA CHE,COME SAPPIAMO NON HA MAI FINALITA' VERAMENTE UMANITARIE! GLI STATI UNITI HANNO FATTO LA PARTE DEL LEONE E ANCHE GLI SPONSORS......NON HO VISTO,TRA I PROGETTI SCELTI, IDEE PEGGIORI O PIU' ORIGINALI DI QUELLE PROPOSTE DA NOI E DA ALTRI ESCLUSI.OFFRIREMO IL NOSTRO PROGETTO GRATUITAMENTE,COME ERA NELLE INTENZIONI, AD UNA RETE DI SCUOLE ABRUZZESI CHE HANNO BISOGNO DI RICOSTRUIRE LE LORO AULE DOPO IL TERREMOTO!
IL TERZO MONDO (SFRUTTATO DA SECOLI E ANCHE OGGI DALLE VECCHIE POTENZE COLONIALI E DALLE ATTUALI POTENZE MULTINAZIONALI!) HA SOLO BISOGNO DI RISARCIMENTI PER I DANNI SUBITI E DI GOVERNI LIBERI! LE BELLE SCUOLE POI..... VERRANNO DA SOLE! NON DI CARITA' O ELEMOSINA HA BISOGNO IL MONDO DEI POVERI E DEGLI ESCLUSI DAL BENESSERE DEL MONDO "CIVILIZZATO".
Giuseppe Campagnoli
4 Agosto 2009
The project starts from the observation of the Italian school building landscape generally disastrous as regards style, stability, hygiene, comfort, economy etc. if an exception is made for rare examples of innovation that do not even represent 1% of the national architectural school heritage.
The context of the project is the city and, in particular, a school of art, important educational institution for the cultural and artistic history and the "made in Italy" in economy.
The other context is the Mediterranean urban and natural environment and the risks always present in the territory owing to natural and human interventions.
The searches of students and teachers involved in the competition gave rise to a number of different possibilities and ideas and showed the need to satisfy the following keywords:
Total flexibility and modularity compatible with self-construction
Mobility
Sustainability and ecology of materials and technologies
Energy saving and self-sufficiency
Comfort of the microclimate
Consistency and innovation as regards the city and the types of school architectures.
Adaptability to different situations (school, museum, square, public library)
Rigorous but simple antiseismic precautions with self-isolation from the soil
Furniture integrated with the structures and customized to make the space multiflexibile
Stylistic innovation in compliance of the architectural, historical and natural environment of the classroom that is independent, autonomous, replicable, extensible and assemblable to any school and cultural building
Formal synthesis of the history of architecture and technology without placing too much importance on the latter.
The basic self-supporting panel can be transformed according to use in wall, roof, work surface, screen, solar panel etc. It is composed of beech uprights, floors and furniture of different materials (glass, cork, wood, slate etc. ..) and can be housed at any point in the frame of the classroom.
The panel can be completed with a number of mobile accessories such as containers, support bases, drawers, lighting elements, and is wired in the space between the outer and inner panels.
The panel can take a variety of sizes and assemblies according to the panel module 1.20 mt. forming the basis for the classroom module 6x6 mt. to configure different forms of classroom with or without court and various bigger combinations of several classrooms from 9x9 mt. to 36x36 mt.
The aesthetic form and the adaptability to both the urban and the natural context are obtained thanks to the transparency and thus the forms and actions that take place inside, the specularity to the surrounding architectural facades and the backlighted screens that project pictures, video messages and advertisements to help maintain the classroom.
The coverage, a paired shed with internal valley, contributes to energetic autonomy.
The traditional classroom versions, cubic or mobile may have a different composition of the modules and the support on aluminum frames dedicated to different functions.
As for the furniture we chose to consider the maximum flexibility and maximum freedom of stylistic choice subject only to the functional value of the panels mentioned above.
The reference to emergencies deriving from natural or man-made disasters designs the classroom as demountable and reassemblable elsewhere in a few hours (cube) in a few weeks (classic) or transportable anywhere in real time as a mobile home for learning (mobile). In this regard, see graphic sketches in table "Main board".
The body is raised from the support (ground, foundation, plinths) through the "elastomeric seismic isolators"
DESIGN REFERENCES
The starting point is the configuration of the city, the partner school and the historical iconography of the European school and classroom, to get to a modern interpretation of historical architectural elements combined with the fundamental requirements of modernity and technology.
The composition aims at designing and building a space, open inside and outside, which will not be indifferent to the school it becomes a part of, nor to the city and its cultural sites it could be temporarily "joined " to.
The leap into the future and toward a concept of "spread" school is not achieved through the classroom as a form but through its flexibility and full mobility (from cities to countryside, to the sea, to the sky ..)
CONSTRUCTIVE SYSTEM
The construction system is based on a frame made of horizontal and vertical elements in aluminum or an alloy of aluminum, connected to the load-bearing modular panels made of beech wood profiles, aluminum crossbars and pannelled from time to time, with wood , solar panels, lightened and burglar-proof glass, touch screens, whiteboards, backlighted screens, equipped drop-leaf desks.
Each panel contains wiring technology. Each panel in its perimeter structure has aggregation valences of plans, forms, technology, mobile benches, containers etc. .. The mezzanine floor is constructed with wood planking and cork insulation panels
While the cover uses the basic module in the "roof" version, with photovoltaic panel that serves as a finish coat.
AGGREGATIVE VARIANTS
The constructive system allows to aggregate the basic module of 6x6 (standard classroom for 18 students) in successive versions (with courtyards, open spaces, passages) 9x9, 18x18, 36 x36 etc.
In the summary table of the project (main board) assumptions are shown for a combination of classrooms, "classical", "cubic", mobile "caravan", "boat" or "balloon" for the lessons in the city and travelling in the area, in water or air.
From here some creative lucubrations that imagine the “balloon” classroom and the "boat" classroom as a not so fanciful manner of "doing school." In fact, the basic foundation of aluminum is the constructive assumption that allows the entire classroom to be placed on a big raft as well as suspended from a balloon.
LIST OF MATERIALS
For the materials used we referred to recyclable, natural or recycled materials, with restoration of habitat (wood), degradable or high efficiency.
Structure: aluminum, joints and supports in anti-seismic rubber.
Panels and roofing: steamed Beachwood stiffened by aluminum profiles, solar panels, aluminum, glass, cork. Valleys and ridges in natural copper.
Furniture: Beech wood colored with transparent water paint, aluminum profiles in electrocolouring, panels of wood and glass, slate or cork, , Kraft cardboard made with recycled paper. Waterproofed Kraft cardboard containers. Portable desks with embedded PC installed on the folding panel.
Within the classroom walls of caducous climbing plants are located for summer "air conditioning".
ENERGY SYSTEM, PLANTS AND CLIMATE
The self-supply of energy for lighting, heating, natural and forced ventilation and the provision of hot water are made through the solar photovoltaic panels on the coverage and using the "greed connected photovoltaic " or a mini battery- producer that transforms into electrical power for equipment and speakers with a low voltage. Rainwater is collected in containers ad hoc and purified for all demands concerning the mini toilet supplied with the classroom.
A pneumatic elevator ensures the accessibility of disabled people to the mezzanine.
The connections to the urban energy networks are done through a plug, external to the module, as an appliance.
The air conditioning uses energy produced by photovoltaic panels for fan coils while the wind towers, the ventilated roof and the natural ventilation ensure the best climatization for the classroom.
The possibility to direct and change the position of vertical and roof panels ensure where necessary the required lighting while the latch carpets hunging over the load-bearing beams of the panels intended to be "billboards" for written communications also represent the acoustic correction of the school environment.
The idea for the future classroom is an open architectural composition so the “object” is customizable by those who live and / or use it and it is substantially "neutral" compared with an out-of-the-box, "closed" form . It is the object of creativity and for creativity, it is the "glass house" to show culture that comes to life and grows and the magic moment of learning. The details are undefined because the construction will be an "interpretation" rather than a mere performance or worse an "assembly" of strict and prosaic instructions.
DETAILED DATA ANALYSIS OF COSTS
The cost refers to the basic classroom module of 36 +18 square meters
For a class from about 18 to 25 pupils
SPECIFICATIONS OF ITEMS - TURNKEY COSTS
1.Structure realized in the frame of beams and pillars in total aluminum, exterior dimensions 6x6x6 meters, including seismic spacers and soil or pre-existing foundation supporting joints € 15,000.00
2.Structure frame for self-supporting wall-panel made of beech wood and aluminum profile with seals and wiring. € 500.00
3.Mezzanine aluminum roof structure with pavement made of wood and cork sandwich panels € 5,000.00
4.Structure to cover the panels made of dedicated and solar panels, including gutters and water collection valleys. € 9,000.00
5.Dedicated panel modules: door, window, walls, technical and utility spaces, blackboards and desks, containers AVERAGE COST € 100.00 each x 250 pieces = € 25,000.00
6.Complete technical module with compartments for central utility plant and potable water storage, electricity ... € 2000.00
7.WC module 3.60 x 3.60 x 1.20 built with wall panels-€ 2000.00
8.Staircase made of aluminum and evaporated painted Beachwood € 5000.00
9.Oleo-pneumatic elevator mt.1, 20x1, 20 € 9,000.00
10.System network integrated with the panels of water facilities, electricity, telephone cables etc. .. including sockets and switches, wireless antennas etc. € 3.000.00
11.Furniture integrated system (for an average of 20 students and 2 teachers) complementary to panels of No. 5 above and made of poor material € 5000.00
TOTAL € 80,000.00 = $ 110.957,0042
