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Cavezzo: Renzo Piano chooses Carlo Ratti architects'projectThe Learning Garden, a new school campus for the town in Emilia Romagna decimated by theearthquake
avezzo, the town in Emilia Romagna hardest hit by the earthquake last May, will have a new school campus, created by the Turin
Architects carlorattiassociati. The firm, which was selected by Renzo Piano from the three groups invited by the Genoese master
to present new proposals, has devised a covered plaza for playing and leisure for children and young people.
The same architect Renzo Piano motivated the choice of the project by Carlo Ratti's office, over those by Iotti + Pavarani
Architetti of Parma and ARCò Architettura e Cooperazione of Milan, participants in the contest, in the following way: “Because it gave a
bigger sign of hope and because it had a more poetic dimension”.
The future plaza was conceived as a sort of large inhabited greenhouse, covered by a thin and lightweight transparent membrane, capable of
keeping down risks to a minimum in the event of new earthquakes. Gym, educational gardens, laboratories, trees will be accommodated in
the greenhouse, in continuity with the existing green areas.
The name given to the project is the Learning Garden, because it refers to the desire to connect spaces and activities in a flexible, as well as
functional manner.
Carlo Ratti was born in Turin in 1971. He graduated in Engineering at both the Politecnico of Turin and at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et
Chaussées in Paris and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, directing the MIT Senseable City Lab, which he founded in
2004. In 2002, he established the office carlo ratti associati walter nicolino & carlo ratti.
He has carried out several civic projects in Italy like the Collegium project for the reform of the European universities and the Valdo Fusi
Committee for the renewal of a square in the centre of Turin. In 2007 he was selected by the Italian Minister of Culture Francesco Rutelli as a
member of the Italian Design Council. In 2012 he was also Director of the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow and
curated the BMW Guggenheim Pavilion in Berlin.
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