February 5

Bari Airport Nursery school and recreation center

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(Materials courtesy of Laboratorio Permanente)

The Bari Airport Nursery school is shaped as a little child-scale world, a new landmark for the airport area and Bari itself. Furthermore, the nursery project is equipped with an advanced technology system which allows it to be energy-autonomous.
The project’s concept was inspired by the intrinsic scale contrast between a nursery and an international airport: an intimate space confronting with a monumental space of exchange.

The recreation center is public and open to the airport staff’s families, as well as to the ones living in the surroundings. It also offers the travellers a temporary stop, thus becoming a supporting facility for travelling families.

The project for a new infancy Polyfunctional Centre for Società Aeroporti di Puglia is based on a previous residential building.


The center is now on two levels and includes three buildings. Two of them are separate but connected by an arcade on the ground floor, while the third volume (on the second level) acts as a bridge between the ones on the ground floor. The necessary volume increase allows to merge the ground floors in a sole C shaped structure. Therefore the ground floor keeps a sheltered and enclosed courtyard, which brings the project back to the tiny dimension of a nursery. The new space arrangement allots the nursey school on the ground floor and the recreation centre on the first floor, extended with a overhang on the south.

The shared service facilities are located in the intersection point between the two structures. The kitchen and the systems are at the end of the C structure and surmounted by a ramp, putting all the ground floor’s covering roofs in one system and giving the recreation center continuity with the outer equipped surfaces, as well as the possibility to face the garden directly.

The first floor’s top features a roof -garden, a green system which works as a passive thermal and acoustic insulator,  also determining an improvement in the urban ecosystem, an increase of water retention, and a delay in the flow of rain water.

This way three open-surface hierarchies are created:
- the shaded yard, closed and thus intimate and traffic-insulated, both sheltered and open, a natural continuation of the ground floor’s connective space;
- the practicable green roof, connected to the recreation center’s functional units, an open terrace from which to have an overview of the outer spaces;
- the nursery’s garden, faced by the three functional units, and where it will be possible to plant diverse types of vegetation.

Such open space hierachization avoids having a unique and undifferentiated space, thus allowing a more organic organization of open areas: paved and sheltered for connective spaces, play and leisure, and paved and not-sheltered spaces, sand tubs, and lawns.

Project data

Project: Bari airport Nursery school and recreation centre
Project name: Il nido dell’aeroporto (The airport nursery)
Location: Bari, Italy
Project Assessment: 2007
Project draft: 2008
Executive project: 2008

Public assignment

Client: Puglia Aereporti
Project design:
Sylos Labini Ingegneri Associati, Domingo Sylos Labini;
LABORATORIO PERMANENTE, Nicola Russi, Angelica Sylos Labini

Consultants

Structures: Studio Sylos Labini Ingegneri Associati
Plant engineering: Studio Associato Magnanimo & C.
Security, calculations and specifications: Studio Sylos Labini ingegneri associati
Contractor: Item srl

Project design phases

Assessment studies: 2007
First draft: 2008
Definite design: 2008
Executive project: 2008
Building phases: 2009-2010
Total area: 754 mq
Cost: Euro 1.700.000

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