SuperSpatial

A physical model of our project for the Locatelli School and Civic Center in Biassono.

The project envisions a place where architecture and nature intertwine, becoming landscape, city, and community. Not a closed building, but a spatial device that educates through experience, guiding students and the wider community on a gradual journey of discovery—of nature, of the city, and of one another.

A school designed to meet the needs of the present while looking toward the future, becoming an integral part of its context while offering the community a new shared landscape.

Team
Architecture and landscape design: SUPERSPATIAL
Engineering and BIM: Sinergo Spa® - Progettazione integrata
Sustainability: Elisa Sirombo

Research notes for the Biassono school project. The references explore trees as structure rather than scenery. The school investigates nature as both a didactic and architectural element, where trees become part of the school’s spatial and structural logic, as well as its ornament. Pavilions are placed among the trees, rather than around them: landscape becomes structure.

1. Enzo Mari - Qualche puntino sulle i (5), gennaio 2012 - manoscritto, Centro di Alti Studi sulle Arti Visive, Milano
2. ViktorSchaubergerr - The Form of the Tree in Relation to Levitative Forces, in Nature as Teacher, ed. Callum Coats (Gateway Books, 1998)Slide
3. Mario Merz -Fibonacci 1202 - foglio di studio - Fondazione Merz, Torino
4. Cesare Leonardi, Franca Stagi - L’architettura degli alberi, 1982 - Gabriele Mazzotta Editore, Milano

Project for a multipurpose cultural space in Milan.
A former industrial building is transformed into a flexible venue for exhibitions, performances, and public events, fostering new connections between culture, community, and the city.

Project for a multipurpose cultural space in Milan.
A former industrial building is transformed into a flexible venue for exhibitions, performances, and public events, fostering new connections between culture, community, and the city.

Designing the new civic library in Biassono as part of the larger civic center and school project, we looked back at our 2021 proposal for the Songdo Library in Seoul.

A reflection on the theme of the library: a project typology completely transformed by the internet, no longer an archive of books, but a new space for horizontal sociality. A civic interior shaped by encounters, shared time, informal learning, and collective presence. A typology redefined by the digital age.

From the research for the Locatelli School complex in Biassono.

The experimental idea of the garden school from the first half of the 20th century became the starting point for the concept: learning spaces immersed in nature, where landscape and education merge into a continuous spatial experience.

Nature is not a backdrop, but becomes part of the pedagogy itself, shaping spaces for exploration, interaction, and collective learning.

Our proposal for the Cittadella della Sicurezza in Rimini, awarded third prize, transforms the former military compound from an enclosed fragment into an open civic landscape.

The project addresses this condition by making the site traversable and inhabitable. A diagonal public axis cuts through the compound, introducing a sequence of civic programs that establish a new urban front opposite the institutional one. Between these two defined edges - the formal presence of the institutions and an open system of civic infrastructures- a new informal public space emerges. It is a series of squares, recalling the spatial continuity and openness of Rimini’s historic fabric. Spaces designed less as fixed objects than as frameworks for different forms of public life.

Rather than an autonomous object, the project proposes an open system capable of restoring connections and returning public value to the city.

Team
Architecture and lanscape:
Engineering:
Sustainability:
BIM: