New art school in San Leucio.

This work concerns the design of the new art school located in the village of San Leucio. Of great importance is the royal site of “Belvedere di San Leucio” which has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. To highlight the relationship with the context, the two buildings are related to each other through a mirador framing the Belvedere.

The design of the New \"San Leucio\" Art School consists of a basement plate in which to place all those spaces that according to current laws must be placed at ground level, such as the administrative spaces, those related to the school canteen, and the places dedicated to sports practices including clinics and changing rooms. Afterward, the plate is excavated to create courtyards and open spaces and to arrange a series of collective and waiting areas within it. Above the slab is then placed a shaped line building dedicated exclusively to classrooms and teaching laboratories, each dedicated to the different addresses already provided by the current high school, such as architecture, painting arts, and industrial design. The division of each level into addresses is emphasized using narrow, colored glass windows running along the corridors leading to the classrooms, a motif repeated several times in the various elevations. Finally, an entire area contains a series of exhibition and multifunctional rooms. The idea is to rethink the school building by connecting it to the logic of the open system, imagining buildings that leave their traditional function of an enclosure to bring the landscape inside the building. This is also made possible by several large optical telescopes that frame the surrounding landscape, establishing a continuous interaction between the students and their surroundings (for example, at the top there is a large mirador framing the Monumental Complex of the Belvedere di San Leucio). In this way, we move away from the idea of the traditional school, which is a closed and limiting system that has proved to be inappropriate for the contemporary evolution of education.