Learning outside of the classroom

The second workshop, “Learning outside the classroom”, took place at Santa Maria Novella Station, an important modern building designed by Giovanni Michelucci. We adopted the same procedure as for the Uffizi exercise. From this architecture, and the interpretation of Michelucci’s design sketches, emerges the monumental space of the ticket office, the long horizontal environmental section which links the station with the apse of Santa Maria Novella Church, the surprising beam-knees of the gallery, the accurate use of materials, the design of furniture as part of the infrastructure itself, the relation with the city.