LEARNING FIELDS / Prato Kindergarden, Achitectural Competition

This project imagines the kindergarten as a landscape of learning, where architecture and environment intertwine to support children’s everyday rhythms. The building unfolds as a linear spine oriented along the agricultural grid, drawing from the local climate and soil as active design agents.

The structure is defined by modularity and porosity: flexible pedagogical units open directly to outdoor spaces, enabling activities to flow between classrooms and gardens. Volumes are arranged around shared thresholds that act as filters between interior and exterior, fostering movement, play, and collective discovery.

The environmental strategy is silent but present—orientation, ventilation, daylight, and seasonal vegetation work as an invisible infrastructure of care, sustaining comfort and autonomy with minimal energy use.

Learning Fields resonates with my current research on infrastructures as living frameworks, where architecture becomes a soft support for human and ecological interaction.

Team: Riccardo Vannucci, Giuseppina Forte, LAND-I