C+S Architects

SCHOOL COMPLEX

IN FONTANIVA , PADUA

- Manlio Brusatin

Trace the meeting point between Vicenza, Padua and Treviso, and you will find Fontaniva.

In an area populated by Palladio villas, bell towers and factories, Fontaniva is the kingdom of Brenta river gravel: the raw material for the reconstruction of the Veneto region, since the 1950s to the golden era of the now-vanished dream of riches known as the Northeast.

1.14 The Kite, a school in Fontaniva, Padua, has become an important piece of architecture, where forward-thinking ideas have been grafted to an area that is by no means peripheral in terms of quality of housing and landscape. Over time, the architect couple Carlo Cappai and Maria Alessandra Segantini (C+S Architects) has managed to form an important course of work and architectural innovation in the ambit of schools, particularly primary schools, which are fundamental for all social projects.