The Area : the competition area, in front of the Cinema Teatro, is located in the city of Chiassocalled “school campus”. The Campus is made up of the cantonal and municipal school buildings, of heterogeneous volumes, height, orientation and architecture, which together with the new buildings of the "Max Museo" and the "Spazio Officina", constitute the "New Center of Art and Culture" of thecity ​​of Chiasso.The requested intervention will dialogue with the Spazio Officina and the Max Museo to the west,with the municipal garden, dedicated to "Colonel Bernasconi", to the south, with the CPC to the east and withschools to the north.The objective of the competition is the design of a double school gym which, in addition to solving the current organizational and functional problems, can complete the new place in an urban, spatial and architectural sense, communicating discreetly with the pre-existing ones.The maintenance of the driveway (for private use), consisting of Via Serafino Balestra, and of a pedestrian connection between the various buildings of the Campus and the new "square" of the Max Museum is also required. 

The project : since the competition area made available by the organizing body has a small surface area, compared to the functional needs of the program, and since the neighboring buildings do not have significant heights and regular orientation and layout, it was decided to partially bury the volume, arranging almost all of the functional rooms required, at the lower level, to allowmaximum transparency and visual permeability at pedestrian level. This arrangement, in addition to having benefits from the point of view of energy saving, allows a constant visual relationship between the outside and the inside and vice versa and avoids the creation of an opaque "barrier" at ground floor level, which would transform the areas included between the new building and those on the Campus, in resulting spaces of poor spatial quality.