1.14 The Kite

1.14 is a team, a group of educators, work to support families taking care of their children after the school hours and during holidays.

from 1 to 6 year old everything is worked out as a game. They use an interdisciplinary approach:

photography to learn how to look at things, theatre to represent ourselves and the world, languages and music to learn how to listen.

imagination is left free of manipulate and re-combine objects, spaces and sight views.

This complex is the first of a series of interventions, which 1.14 has the intention to build in Italy to spread their vision.

It is a big roof, a kite which has been captured during its flight to become the repair under where activities take place.

The kite is a thick concrete made structure, without any insulation working with its own thermal inertia to protect from the summer heat and creating a constant temperature inside the spaces.

A series of labs, race tracks, sand arenas and swimming pools design the open-air space. The pitched roofs of the buildings serving the swimming pools are made of solar and photovoltaic panels, which allow the pre-heating of the pool’s water in the mid-seasons and the heating of the inside spaces during the winter.

The concrete structure, coinciding with the form of the building, generated the ideal summer air-conditioning, without the necessity of any mechanical installation.

In the inside, the kite is enriched by color and matter. Its spaces are flexible and open.

Iimagination is left free of manipulate and re-combine objects, spaces and sight views.