Architecture studio MoDus Architects has extended a daycare in the town of Terlano, Italy, to create the Tartan School nursery, kindergarten and youth centre.
The small South Tyrolean town is surrounded by orchards and vineyards, which the studio used to inform the nursery's appearance.
The tartan facade aims to have "warmth and familiarity"
The studio aimed to connect the lower level of the extension, which will be used by the wider community for events and meetings, to the outdoor spaces.
A colonnade filled with glass walls and doors runs alongside the dining hall visually connecting it to the schoolyard.
Alongside the dinning hall, other spaces that will be used by the community include a 50-person-capacity auditorium and a gym.
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"In Italy, there is a long-standing tradition of the school being a place used for all sorts of activities outside of school hours," said MoDus Architects.
"We think of schools like puzzles, although ideally, every piece has to fit in place, if a few of those puzzle pieces go missing with time, the big picture needs to still be legible."
The dining hall has views of the playground
Alongside the extension, the rearranged existing structure now contains a nursey school on the upper floor level and a youth centre on the lower level.
MoDus Architects aimed to unite the two structures with the internal...