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Project by Lorenzo Tognocchi – Client: Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso – Competition: fifth prize –
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The project concerns the realization of a center for the environmental education located in the National Park of Gran Paradiso. It is composed of a visitors’ center, a botanic garden and a educational path, a route in the open area where explanatory panels help the visitors to observe and recognize the different vegetal species that grow in alpine environment.
The visitors’ center have been realized in the lower area of the site, it is the starting and the ending point of the educational path. The building houses the spaces for indoor didactic activities but also the apartment of the guardian and a storage for the agricultural tools of the gardeners.