The Montessori School would be located on the bank of River Arno. Adjacent to the Montessori School is the Amerigo Vespucci Bridge designed by Riccardo Morandi and completed in 1957. The bridge connects two very different neighborhoods in the center of Florence. The neighborhood on the north side of the Arno River, between the Ognissanti monastery and the Cascine park, is considered an upper class neighborhood, housing foreign consulates, palazzos, hotels and large apartment buildings. In contrast, San Frediano, the neighborhood on south side of the Arno River, is a working class neighborhood of apartments, factories and workshops, with a larger family population.
For purposes of the project, the Ponte Amerigo Vespucci is assumed to be closed entirely to vehicle parking, with automobile traffic restricted to the center section, and its pedestrian crossings on either side expanded in conjunction with the construction of a small Montessori School, which will act to connect—as an inhabited axis communis—these two disparate neighborhoods of Florence. Children coming from these two neighborhoods would study, play, and learn from each other in this Montessori school, dissolving the hierarchical boundries.