Primakov School’s mission is to create a motivational and educational environment to bring up leaders who are able to make the world a better place. The total area of the School is 16 hectares. Located here is the infrastructure for comfortable living and learning, allowing students to develop their potential and abilities in various areas — science, art and sports. Modern education today is all about multiplying connections. Informal conversations — between students, and between students and teachers — turn knowledge into something continuous. In this new horizontal, network-style model, recreation spaces (places to rest, hang out) have become the school’s heart. Therefore, the central space of the building became an atrium. The atrium floor is shaped like an artificial landscape. Its terraced elements — a gentle “slope” (zigzag staircase), a “hill,” a “grotto,” a “hollow”. Each one is given a function and becomes part of daily life. Here, you'll find recreational areas, a cafeteria, and a "book nook". The main landscape feature — a dynamic amphitheater staircase — unfolding with its complex geometry towards the stage block. The School’s major events take place here - charity fairs, concerts, and final assemblies. Its capacity is over 1000 people. The residential complex for students and teachers consists of five buildings. Living rooms are grouped around generous recreation areas that draw on the classic cloister courtyard typology. The supporting infrastructure rounds out the picture: an indoor swimming pool, gymnastics halls, a multi-purpose sports hall for team games, plus an outdoor stadium with stands and a running track. A school environment can provide students with additional motivation, foster creativity, nurture artistic expression and scientific knowledge. A student is not just present in a stimulating environment but actively contributes to it, influencing their surroundings.

The proposed project suggests a middle ground between the large-scale school building and the small houses of Razdory Village scattered around it. This medium scale helps the architects to create a quiet, homely atmosphere in harmony with nature characteristic of the world’s best examples of suburban school campuses. Each subject area has its own building, and a glazed atrium space brings them all together. The atrium is the schoolyard, aka library reading room, aka auditorium, where the transparent all behind the stage opens up the view of the enfilade of small courtyards between the Gymnasium’s buildings. In this space, transparency is more than visual access. This space is transparent because it is visible from everywhere and it opens up the view of the whole school. It is a place where people can meet, on purpose or by chance, a place where the gymnasium community takes shape. Transparency, both literal and figurative, helps build social skills, expand one’s intellectual horizons, and form a students’ professional and cultural identity.