Enrico Castiglioni / Dante Brigatti: Elementary School, 1955D–1956
- Busto Arsizio, Italy, Show on map
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On April 27th 1955, the municipality of Busto Arsizio commissioned the engineer and architect Enrico Castiglioni and the engineer Dante Brigatti to prepare, in collaboration, the design of a primary School building and its furnishing to be built in Sempione district. The original project included 10 classrooms divided into three blocks, to be built in two steps. The construction was never completed and only the two blocks (for 6 classrooms) were built. The building is featured by the original structural design of two “Π-shaped” portals in exposed reinforced concrete and by folded glass walls with iron-windows frames.
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The building currently hosts the headquarters of the "ENAIP Learning Center". The exposed reinforced concrete structures have been partially covered with white paint, while the original windows have been changed. Glasses have been replaced with new frames, while the original folded solution is still visible in the iron-windows frames pattern that has been conserved, in spite the lost of its original function. The original furnishing is completely replaced.
Special thanks to Ilaria Giannetti