☉ Boarding school and canteen in Malles is a second prize competition entry by Nuvolab developed in 2014. It is located in Malles Venosta Italy in a mountain setting. Its scale is large with a surface of 16.255 sqm. Key materials are concrete and wood.
The project seeks graduals urban relationships inserting itself into the landscape taking advantage of the slope to minimize the new sight impact with the building. The passage between the upstream and the built lawn area downstream is accompanied by the extension of the slope into the project area with the gradualness of different materials: the roof covered with vegetation in continuity with the orography of the land, the exposed wood facade of two upper floors and the mineral facade on the ground floor of the boarding school.