Pagano designed a building whose shape comes from the mixture of technical and functional data and representation needs, continuously pursuing the balance amongst the parts of the composition and the various volumes.

Outside, the building features the strict design of the facades, whose openings follow a modular sequence and whose profiles are neat, corners well defined, surfaces flat. The structure stands out for the series of its facades, and above all the ground floor portico.

The interiors of this building are very interesting, because Pagano has studied and designed spaces, fixed and moving furniture, details and decorations with a very personal style that distances itself from both the rationalist poetics of that time and the oppressiveness of the 20th-century trends.

Methodological strictness and a disposition for synthesis led the architect to design bright rooms where solid wood (Beechwood, Maple), straw linings and masonite panels are predominating.

Matte surfaces alternate with shiny surfaces, glass panes mix with wood; every furniture element is carefully studied in connection with its specific functions.

Pagano designed openwork shelves, chests of drawers of different sizes, small padded chairs or chairs upholstered in straw, anatomic typing chairs with flexible backrests.

A variety of furniture that is an evidence of the effort and importance attributed to the workplace, but above all gets rid of the traditional “corporate" hierarchy, which is often expressed by a progressive lowering of the level of luxury as the importance of the offices decreases, with the consequent use of different furniture according to the destination of the room.

Pagano uses the same materials, the same furniture designs, the same lamps, the same color schemes in the offices of the headmaster, the director, the treasurer, and the archivist, in the great hall and the canteen, thus overcoming any differentiation of class and level, and expressing the true possibility of creating places that are able to meet a social organization at work.

All interiors, regardless of their destination, are characterized by great simplicity, due to the quest for functionality and design, which makes the furniture structure free and uncovered (like it somehow has happened with the building staircase and in the facades). Armchairs and small chairs defined by curved wooden boards, desks and desktops that join with shelves and chests of drawers separated from the desktops and various overhanging: everything made of wood or similar materials.