Colour and Human Comfort in Innovative Schools. The Negrar Study Case

In 2016 the Italian Ministry of Education organised a competition to realize 51 new “Innovative Schools” placed all long the peninsula. Selecting these schools the municipality of Negrar (neighbouring Verona) was chosen among those who would had the funds to demolish a prefabricated school built around the Seventies of last century, currently in use but with considerable maintenance problems. This building will be replaced with a new one to serve as a model for other schools in the Veneto Region. The school illustrated in the paper was taken as study case by some researchers of Iuav University of Venice, assuming the correct use of colour and light essential for student’s wellbeing. The opportunity of the design competition, in which the researchers participated, served as a validation of the research hypotheses on colour.