Bosciorina School District / Biasca

Attention to the landscape has assumed such great importance in our time that it has generated a specific specialised activity, hovering between botany and geography, ecology and scenography. The inevitable transformation of the landscape can be all the more virtuous the more it is consistent with the peculiarities of the territory.
The Bosciorina compartment – simplifying – has two relevant landscapes: a remote one and a near one.
The remote landscape is an intense alpine cyclorama punctuated by the passages of the three valleys (Biasca is at the crossroads of the Riviera valley to the south, Blenio to the north, Leventina to the west).
The neighbouring landscape is an ordinary suburban fabric: enclosed parcels of land, with individual or collective dwellings, surrounded by private gardens.
As a response, starting from the collective significance of the activities to be settled, we propose the area to become a large public space.
The building plan – kindergarten, primary schools and double gymnasium, bibliomedia, nursing home – is gathered in a group of non-oriented architectures, which define, with their reciprocal positioning, a series of differentiated but fluidly connected areas. The exception is the volume of the kindergarten, on the entire northern boundary of the compartment, which plays the role of an orographic connection.