A jewel in the crown for Sassari's nursery schools and the Monte Rosello neighborhood . It's the facility on Via Quasimodo, whose recently completed interior —the first to be funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan—was presented this morning to the joint Public Works and Education Policies committees .
"It's a thousand square meters," explains Public Works Councilor Salvatore Sanna. " It will house 50 children and was funded with €3 million from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan , along with €140,000 from the previous government and €377,000 from the current administration. We expect to open it for the next school year."
The school is arranged across three blocks, each dedicated to a different age group: up to 12 months, 12-24 months, and 24-36. "This is a momentous turning point ," says Councilor for Educational Policies Nicoletta Puggioni, "which will allow us to reopen a school that closed 12 years ago due to structural damage , which also occurred when I was principal."
The building boasts a variety of features: state-of-the-art systems, including laminate wood floors, underfloor heating, video surveillance and connected alarms, child-sized portholes, and a kitchen divided in two to accommodate children with food intolerances or celiac disease. Even the colors have been carefully designed to meet the children's perceptual needs, with subtle nuances of color. In the outdoor spaces, which will be completed with the latest resources, exercise trails will be created, followed by planting.
Meanwhile, regional funding has been secured for the nearby gym, which will become another asset of the hub. During the visit, which was also attended by Mayor Giuseppe Mascia, the history of a place that, in the 1950s, was home to the city's first vocational training institute and later a preschool, was reconstructed. Regarding the financing process, the first application for redevelopment dates back to 2021 and was submitted to the ministry. The funds were not funded there, but were instead transferred to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) with €3 million.
"During the work," reports Public Works Director Pier Giovanni Melis, "the need for structural reinforcement arose, and so we abandoned the idea of external drainage to ensure the building's functionality."
With the 377,000 data from the Mascia administration, the outdoor spaces are also complete. The complex will be equipped with innovative technology that will allow for near-self-management of electricity consumption, including a photovoltaic system. The construction company that completed the work was Marco Longo's Gecomar, with Maria Laura Pulina as project manager, architect Maria Gavina Porcu as project manager, and architect Elisabetta Amatu as safety coordinator.
