The extension of the Oberndorf educational campus includes the new building of the Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium (BORG – Federal Upper-Secondary Academic School) with eight standard classrooms and an enhancement of the sports facilities in the shape of a new gym with adjacent outdoor sports grounds. Basing the concept on a holistic architectural approach, the new school building coherently implements the premises of openness, interaction and sustainability – encompassing urban development standards through to the interior design and furnishing.
The school boulevard in front of the new building converges seamlessly into the forecourt of the existing Commercial Academy/Polytechnic Academy (Handelsakademie – HAK/PTS) and the existing gym, thus setting up a connection to the educational facilities in line with urban development standards.
A spacious, roofed-over school forecourt creates an eye-catching and transparent approach. It finds its continuation in the inner courtyard of the new school. Framed on three sides on the ground floor it functions as an outdoor extension to the aula, the school assembly hall, and can be used as an ideal schoolyard for breaks, also as space for assemblies and relaxation. The roofed-over area also provides pupils, teachers and visitors protection in all weathers.
This spacious atrium is enclosed by a three-storey building with recessed terraces; its formal design is based on the criteria of a transparent and overall structure of optimal visibility, and short, spatially high-quality access routes. This is reflected most of all in the complex viewing perspectives the new school building offers to its users. A constantly alternating interplay between viewing out, viewing into and through the building offers pupils, teachers and visitors a spatial experience that is as diverting as it is diverse.