Achille Germain : School in Scampia
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Naples, in the 1920s, the Italian educator Giulia Civita Franceschi by rehabilitating an old warship, founded an alternative school for the city’s orphaned and homeless children. She then salvages and transforms this place, seemingly frozen in its history, associated with violence, brutality and fatality, into an effervescent place, bubbling with creativity and serenity. It is particularly from this dimension of opposition of different atmospheres and after observing the increasing level of juvenile crime in some neighbourhoods, that I wanted to create an alternative school in the neighbourhood of La Scampia.

I wanted to extend this idea of an ambiguous place, in contrast but also integrated and in harmony with its context, by choosing to install my project on the top of the wooded hill overlooking the Ciro Esposito Park in center of La Scampia. Fused into the body of the hill, my building seeks to be incorporated into the territory while at the same time endowing itself with a form capable of contrasting with the harshness of the surrounding landscape, without having the pretension of opposing it.

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