Space and figuration of the school building in the construction of the metropolitan periphery: The school as a social emancipation workshop

Abstract

The research concerns the study of settlement forms for school buildings and their susceptibility to becoming public places and centres for aggregation. In particular, schools are analysed here as the set-up of a larger project of social redemption in the metropolitan suburbs. The paper analyses a possible approach to the problem in a situation in which the architectural design of space for education does not renounce the covering of a polygenetic role in the layout of the contemporary city.