The future school building in Maia Bassa lies within a large area of the municipality of Merano identified as the future centre of a new educational and cultural hub. A single square volume with a flat roof was chosen, emerging from a new green base, the ground floor of the school, which houses the most public functions. In this way the project has a lighter impact on its surroundings.

Between the German nursery school and the new volume sit the new tripartite gymnasium, the auditorium and the library, all three set below grade so that their roof can serve as the nursery garden. These functions, usable by the other schools and by the public outside school hours, are directly accessible from outside through a patio set on the pedestrian axis of the future campus.

The complex is conceived as a place of aggregation, where cultural production combines with sport and recreation: transparency, distributive clarity and accessibility are carefully studied to encourage users to take ownership of the space. A building conceived as a large pavilion within the Maia Bassa campus, coherently set among the existing schools and ensuring views and openness in every direction.