Colognola ai Colli, half an hour east of Verona, Italy, is a quiet, conservative-minded industrial and farming village of 8,700. So, when architect Claudio Lucchin presented his design for a new primary school here that bucked tradition, it raised some eyebrows. “Please, can you build me a normal school?” the architect recalls the then-mayor imploring upon seeing his scheme and its unorthodox form and fenestration. “This one is too weird.” But Lucchin is not interested in bowing to conformity, especially where education is involved. “When you do banal, it kills any form of curiosity or creativity,” he says. “For me, it is important to make spaces with possibility.”