School Center Ringstrasse, Chur

School Center Ringstrasse, Chur

The project responds to the complexity and heterogeneity of the program with a unitary and coherent intervention, which combines functions with different requirements and scale, while providing a large open space for the school and the entire neighborhood, in continuity with the spatial identity of the area. A horizontal public volume along the street serves as a gate to the park and school. It defines the street front, while resolving the difference in height between the road and the ground and protecting the park from the road. This element constitutes a light and permeable filter that contains the sports facility, which ultimately determines the scale of the intervention, and the common functions open to the public. The school building is defined as a building in the park and hosts kindergarten, primary school and secondary school. A compact and light volume that responds to the surrounding wide open spaces. The character of the building corresponds to its public function and the spatial identity of the context. The two volumes, which are counterposed in their proportions, are articulated in analogy with the use of the same materials and through the systematic repetition of the elements.

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Project
School Center Ringstrasse
Location
Chur
Year
2019
Program
Educational, Leisure
Type of commission
Competition with selective procedure, 6. Prize
Status

Building type
Newbuild

Client
Stadt Chur

Size
95'000 m³

Team
Luca Pessina, Denisa Balaj, Aramis Vincenzi

Collaboration
Tocchetti Architetti Ingegneri

Landscape Architecture
Ghiggi Paesaggi

Structural Engineer
Ingegneri Pedrazzini Guidotti

Images
Filippo Bolognese Images