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Alte Schule
Alte Schule
Wurmannsquick, Germany
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Alte Schule
Wurmannsquick, Germany
Type
YEAR
2014
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
The 'Alte Schule' was built in 1901 as a school building. Even after the construction of the new school in the 1970s, the historic building remained a vital part of the identity of the city: many had gone to school there, and the the magnificent, slightly weathered brick facade was a well known landmark.
In 2009 the Market Council decided to carefully refurbish the schoolhouse, currently used by various associations. The public library should become enlarged and accessible to disabled users, the situation of the marksmen club was unsatisfactory. The brass instruments club lacked space for meetings and joint activities and a flexible multipurpose room was missing.
The space requirements of the shooting lanes would have led to major structural changes in the historic structure of the old house. Taking them out into the basement of an extension building made it possible to have an additional spacious, barrier-free multipurpose room.
The additional building persists besides the historic building through a modern architectural language, though seeking a familiarity in its handcrafted rather than industrial construction elements. Sliding shutters offer protection against the nearby road and the sun, but also allow for opening the view to the town and the landscape. The semi-transparent casing is designed to create curiosity about its insides.
The remaining historical structures in the existing building, above all the richly decorated brick facade, were restored respectfully. The careful restoration did not cover the traces of past buildings but left them visible. The more than a hundred years old colored tiles in the hallway, the audibly creaking wooden staircase, plaster surfaces as far as they could be retained, and one of the original blackboards, integrated in the wall plaster, bear evidence of the building’s history.
Concerning the inside of the historic building, there was little to do — the basic design with a central hallway and the classes set to its sides is flexible enough to fulfill today’s needs as it did a hundred years earlier.
A modern central pellets heating in the basement of the annex, together with some insulation in the upmost ceiling and the ground floor, a reduced wall heating system, and optimized box-type windows with the slim profiles of single glazings on their outside and double glazings on their inside, keep the walls dry and the rooms at a comfortable temperature level. The few new elements — interior doors, new technology — fits, integrated in a handcrafted manner, unobtrusively into what was already there.
In 2009 the Market Council decided to carefully refurbish the schoolhouse, currently used by various associations. The public library should become enlarged and accessible to disabled users, the situation of the marksmen club was unsatisfactory. The brass instruments club lacked space for meetings and joint activities and a flexible multipurpose room was missing.
The space requirements of the shooting lanes would have led to major structural changes in the historic structure of the old house. Taking them out into the basement of an extension building made it possible to have an additional spacious, barrier-free multipurpose room.
The additional building persists besides the historic building through a modern architectural language, though seeking a familiarity in its handcrafted rather than industrial construction elements. Sliding shutters offer protection against the nearby road and the sun, but also allow for opening the view to the town and the landscape. The semi-transparent casing is designed to create curiosity about its insides.
The remaining historical structures in the existing building, above all the richly decorated brick facade, were restored respectfully. The careful restoration did not cover the traces of past buildings but left them visible. The more than a hundred years old colored tiles in the hallway, the audibly creaking wooden staircase, plaster surfaces as far as they could be retained, and one of the original blackboards, integrated in the wall plaster, bear evidence of the building’s history.
Concerning the inside of the historic building, there was little to do — the basic design with a central hallway and the classes set to its sides is flexible enough to fulfill today’s needs as it did a hundred years earlier.
A modern central pellets heating in the basement of the annex, together with some insulation in the upmost ceiling and the ground floor, a reduced wall heating system, and optimized box-type windows with the slim profiles of single glazings on their outside and double glazings on their inside, keep the walls dry and the rooms at a comfortable temperature level. The few new elements — interior doors, new technology — fits, integrated in a handcrafted manner, unobtrusively into what was already there.
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