Project: New City Schools

(2014) Neue Stadtschulen, St. Gallen. The New Apostolic Church on Rosenberg, built by the architect Heinrich Graf in 1957/1958, was acquired by Bettina and Markus Würth in order to build a place of learning that meets the most modern educational requirements. The space was reorganised and expanded to meet the needs of the New City School. Without compromising the generosity of the former church room, room zones were created for autonomous learning, teamwork forms, inputs and regeneration. The high former church room is the "thinking room" for autonomous learning. Like tree houses, two organic, two-storey interior rooms now stand freely in the space. The former gallery was glazed and restaged as an auditorium, with projection screens in the open church space. The cafeteria, welcome and cloakroom were created on the ground floor. Here, too, organic lines dominate, but as a closed membrane.

Photography: Jürg Zürcher, SG / Virginie Vabre Schweizer, KaA
Client: Bettina and Markus Würth
Architecture: Klaiber Partnership AG, Schillerstrasse 9, CH-9000 St. Gallen. Gallen
Lighting design: art light GmbH, Zürcherstr. 202, CH-9014 St. Gallen
Luminaires: athene® A-AL2, athene® A-SL, athene® A-KL2

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