primaryschool Kundl

Primary school and sports hall are defined by two new cubes that are set off to one another, making the required building size easy to digest and creating free views in all directions. The existing canopies of the entrances adjacent to the school square are closed to form a covered walkway, an airy pergola connects the 3 houses with each other wheather-proof and creates a central entrance for the new primary school. The separation of the elementary school from the music school creates new perspectives, the urban hermetic structure of the central school square is broken open to the landscape. The urban development axis church-local authority-music pavilion-school square now extends with a flight of stairs down to the school and kindergarten and as far as to the mountain forest on the horizon. If you enter the school grounds from the west, the new sports hall forms the opposite of the existing class wing, with a generous open space on 2 levels in between for sporting activities. To the west, the facade is structured by comb-like northern light boxes, but light also comes diffusely through the lamellas on the west and north facade into the depths of the hall. In the east, the grandstand creates an exciting north-south connection and allows spectators to enter from the north and south. The new primary school opens with the transparent ground floor towards the living space of the city in all directions. Learning space and green space merge with one another. With its two upper floors, the school is true to scale adequate for this age group. The new outside staircase takes the students from the central cloakroom which is located directly at the main entrance to the school garden.