The Learning Factory / WNA Walter Nicolino Architects

The Learning Factory – a private university for Applied Arts and Design - is located in Bologna, Italy, in a complex along the railway that originally housed the early twentieth-century "Ovidio Vignoni" hand-decorated tile company. The spaces, due to their past use linked to the artisan and production sector in the field of hand-decorated tiles, are characterized by large zones with a marked verticality, which the renovation project has maintained and enhanced. Beneath its ripples, the pitched wooden roof creates a covered square with a program open to the various activities of the university.