- Client: LAWOG
- Location of site: Lambach, Austria
- Program: School and Boarding School
- Project by (Firm name): Architect Hans Mesnaritsch
Agricultural School Center, Lambach, Austria:
The site is located close to an idyllic river bend of the river Traun and the remains of a monasterial farm with characteristic gabled roofs.
The design of the new buildings stands in sharp contrast to the old buildings, but in its arrangement the new complex is connected up to the main axes of the existing structure. The whole ensemble is generating a variety of outer spaces.
The school was designed as a three-story hall school with double loaded corridors. Situated between the corridors in the intermediate zone are two cores with a staircase and supply units, as well as the main hall in the midway, which is stretching across all floors. In the mid floor the hall opens up southwards to an ample, common terrace.
The 18 main classrooms (out of 48) are facing south. In form of a recessed balcony, every class owns its additional free space, which is also protecting the glas-front from the sun.
The school - a rectangular block - and the adjoining buildings are forming the schoolyard. The student dormitory – a three-story cube with a central hall, reaching from the main floor up to the roof – is connected through a hallway to the heritage-protected part of the building, a stone-barn built in the first decade of the 20th century. This barn by master builder Matthäus Schlager now serves as a carefully refurbished dining-hall.
The new compact and composite construction consists of a concrete frame structure which serves as heat accumulator, while the external cladding of wood and insulating material takes over the heat protection. The ultimate skin is made by narrow boards of Larch wood.
- Principal designer: Hans Mesnaritsch, Franz-Georg Spannberger
- Design team: Alfred Wirschke, Hubert Stöger , Michaela Zopf
- Built-up area: app. 15.000 sqm
- Cost of construction: app. 20 million €
- Year of completion: 2009
- Text credits: Architect Hans Mesnaritsch
- Photo credits:
Walter Luttenberger
Angelo Kaunat