The project includes the planning of a new school and its urban context. It keeps the original configuration of the public park and the path which connects Weißenburger Straße and Spicherman Straße. The new settlement organizes the original plot itself, an urban void and future expansion zones which will be arranged with a new library and a day centre throughout different phases in future.

The context regular framework influences the disposition of the volumes so that functional flexibility is fundamental, as well as areas with different uses, that have to be able to work independently. The existent poplar wood, a succession of voids and volumes, green areas and courtyards are included in the project. Low ecological impact trees occupy the ground that will host new buildings in future, to be eradicated when there will be positive circumstances to begin new construction. In this way, we can perceive the complex as finished rather than an unaccomplished settlement with empty spaces waiting for new buildings.

Coming from Weißenburger Straße, there is the existent gym, which holds on its right side, the ground that will host the future day centre. In the middle, a path goes towards Spicherman Straße, passing underneath the classroom of the new school and next by the forthcoming public library (identified by the yellow trees zone in the mockup).

The original way, even if slightly modified, is the spine of the complex and allows independent entrance to the buildings.

The new school has different entries, but the porticoed one, the more sheltered from weather inclemency, is the principal and has direct access to the main hall of the centre.

The school spreads around from a big courtyard used as a playground. On the Southeast, covered by poplars, there is the administration and the staffroom. On the opposite side of the entrance, there are the classrooms. The main hall, caretaker’s office and the library close the Southeast border.

The twelve classrooms are on the first and second floor to separate it from the rest of the building. The triple high main hall visually connects the different floors and it represents the heart of the structure. Classrooms are Southeast oriented and benefit good enlightenment and special views of the poplar wood and city rooftops.

We studied the big complex of the classrooms to shade the surrounding spaces and to protect from hard winter winds the playgrounds and the outdoor areas.

The North front has ribbon windows, which light up the corridors of distribution. The Southern façade is configured to receive sunlight and is protected by concrete projections that also contribute to the creation of a characteristic image of the centre.