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ALUCOBOND® | Forms & Elements

7 ORDERLY PERSPECTIVES Project: Stefan Andres Gymnasium, Schweich | Germany Architects: harter+kanzler, Freiburg | Germany Construction: riveted / screwed Year of Construction: 2012 Product: ALUCOBOND® plus Anodized Look C34 Heading towards the Mosel, the Stefan An-dres Grammar School in Schweich borders your path for about 160 metres. The whole grammar school, with its three parallel classes and a public hall, is located on only two levels. The building’s 6 300m² sur-face area constitutes a large, flat volume requiring a well-planned grid design for successful lighting, development and integration into the cityscape. harter + kanzler architects have divided the floor plan into manageable sections with courtyards, ex-tended hallways and visual axes. But for the façade facing the road, the architects have opted for an impressive length: they complement the concrete floor and ceiling slabs with prominent angular pre-fabrica-ted exposed concrete elements offering a light horizontal contrast to the dark back-ground. The closed surface of the façade behind has been clad in ceiling-to-floor rear-ventilated ALUCOBOND® panels with a dark anodised surface. The glazed areas are discreet wooden and dark aluminium mullion-transom constructions with dark full length weather protection slats in front of the casement windows. A row of me-tal supports set at the outer edge of the concrete elements is the major configuring feature on the façade length: dark supports located at equidistant points on both storeys. In between these supports, there are more slender lighter coloured ones, set at irregular intervals and determined by the function of the space concealed behind. The façades on the upper and lower floors are set in contrast and rhythmically offset by pale-coloured supports which create two bands. Depending on the angle of per-spective and how close together supports are positioned, passers-by can see more or less of the building’s interior. The façade design creates three lines and two bands which seem to float alongside the road. Driving, cycling, running or walking past the building at different speeds reveals dif-ferent degrees of transparency and varies the façade’s dynamism.


ALUCOBOND® | Forms & Elements
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