Gymnasium Willigis und Pfarrgemeindehaus St. Stephan

Kleine Weißgasse, Mainz, Germany

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Gymnasium Willigis und Pfarrgemeindehaus St. Stephan

Kleine Weißgasse, Mainz, Germany

Firm

AV1 Architekten
Michael Schanné

Type

Educational › Elementary School

YEAR

2011

SIZE

100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

BUDGET

$5M - 10M

The location, immediately adjacent to the Cloister of the Church
of St. Stephan, defines the location and atmosphere. The overall objective of the design is to create a home that
fits into the scale of both existing historical structures.The house as a
living and learning space.A pitched roof house, in reference to the former sexton's house
takes up the space for the parish of St. Stephan and St. Ignaz, while a
building containing the classrooms of the school and a multifunctional dining
room. Both elements are easily readable and the identification of students and
the community with their house is given.
A distant light gap between the buildings and the historic
exterior wall of the cloister links with the new. The gap, as a foyer and
circulation routes serve as places of communication with a view to the outside
and make the particularity of the situation in the interior experience at all
levels.
The height of the building project is based on the amount of the
cloister wall, so that the new building comes from the interior of the cloister
is not visually apparent.
The courtyards, which serve both as a light source as well as a
variety of recordable space for members to easily and visually expand the
building, the rooms in the house. Surprising space and atmospheric events
occur.