Purchase
Realization competition FOS/BOS Memmingen
2001
Urban development :
The new technical secondary school/vocational secondary school fits as a solitaire into the spacious ensemble of various schools in the surrounding area.The heterogeneity of these buildings with their complex cubatures and many projections and recesses is responded to with a "ring solution" that spans a clearly defined field on the outside and creates a spatially differentiated "microcosm" of special areas and designed open spaces on the inside.Openings on all four sides with courtyards link the building with the extensive grounds and thus create a connection to the landscape. Ambivalence as a concept.Consideration is given to the requirements of the construction site with sufficient noise protection distance from the railroad line.
Building/construction:
The school building develops as a 2-storey trapezoidal courtyard type, which is oriented towards the property boundaries. The construction grid of the reinforced concrete skeleton building is n x 60 cm, the support grid is 7.20m x 7.20m or 7.20m x 7.80m. We consider external unity and internal diversity to be appropriate in order to offer vocational and technical college students a varied and didactically designed school experience. The place should be given an identity and possess its qualities in a figurative sense, especially on the inside.
Open space concept:
Courtyards and themed gardens, an essential idea of the open space concept, offer students a diverse range of different uses for breaks and freedom. The exhibition courtyard/Birkenhain: it offers the opportunity to present products created in the FOS/BOS workshops as well as free sculpture and art objects
The play yard:
It is the smallest courtyard, assigned to the break hall and library. Pupils can play large field chess and other games at tables there.