A Brazilian school won one of the most outstanding international awards: 2018 RIBA International Award. The complex was considered the best architectural construction in the world. The project, designed by architect Marcelo Rosembaum and the Aleph Zero group, focused on sustainability and was inspired by indigenous culture.
Vila das Crianças is a school complex that offers accommodation for 540 children of school age at Escola Canuanã. Managed and financed by Fundação Bradesco, it is one of the forty schools that offer education to needy local children, who pay nothing for the services.
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The foundation owns a large farm in Formoso do Araguaia, where this school is based, and provides accommodation for rural workers, teachers, children and teenagers with numerous school buildings, a cafeteria and a small hospital. Students receive 6 meals a day and go home on weekends.
The RIBA International Prize is awarded every two years to a building that exemplifies design excellence, architectural ambition and makes a significant social impact. It is one of the most rigorously judged architecture awards in the world, with all buildings visited by a panel of international experts.
Vila das Crianças was chosen from a list of four exceptional new buildings by a grand jury chaired by renowned architect Elizabeth Diller.
According to Aleph Zero, the structure was designed to add value to a home, as children and young people spend a lot of time away from their families. “The organization in villages is based, firstly, on the need to add values to the entire existing complex, as well as to enhance the idea of belonging of students to the Canuanã school. The status of the school as the only learning space is demystified and it becomes a territory with the value of home”.
