The school is located in a large artisan workshop in the historic centre of Florence, between Piazza Santo Spirito and Piazza Pitti. It consists of various separate environments, with workshops and design classrooms all interconnecting to facilitate interaction among the various disciplines.
This environment consists of 22 fixed work stations for students, fitted with whip drills, grinders and sanders. Each work station is also equipped with a toolbox containing round-nose pliers, narrow flat pliers, half round-nose pliers, large flat pliers, welding scissors, clasps, fire tongs, brushes, collectors for metal filings, fretwork wands, large flat files, large half-round course-grain files, large half-round fine-grain files, triangular needle files, round needle files, flat needle files, set small-needle files, goldsmith’s hammers, watchmaker’s clasps, "bicycle wheel spokes", double decimetres, compasses, and rubber hammers.
The complete toolbox allows students to have everything on hand that is necessary for their training.
2 laminators, 10 mm cylinders and hand die for the jewellery making course.
Wooden bench for embossing and engraving, equipped with bottoniere, steel imbottitoi and vice. Vulcanizer for the silicon rubber die. Injector for the moulding of the wax models.
Panel for general use of the tools.
Room equipped with a kiln for firing the cylinders, a vacuum smelting complex, aspiration, wax casting furnace, metal melting furnace, casting bench for use of the brackets.
5 welding stations with aspiration fans and a sealing wax station.
Room equipped with a cleaning machine with two stations with aspiration fans and ultrasound baths, magnetic and spherical sifters, and basins for recovering the metals.
3 stations for the hot enamelling specialisation courses.
4 stations for the microcasting and wax courses.
Room reserved for the theoretical part of the courses, with work-stations for computer graphics and drawing benches adaptable for notebooks. There is also a jewellery library available for students.
This is where the resin prototypes are printed via the rapid prototyping method, and where the products manufactured are photographed. This room is fitted with a bench, a stereolithographic printer, a kiln for resins and a photographic set with soft-box umbrellas for still-life photos.
Station also reserved for photo editing and pagination for creating portfolios.
