Bildungshaus Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg, Germany
Elementary & Middle School, Library
Competition, Honorable Mention
Februrary 2014
An elementary school, middle school, community library, café, and administrative offices spiral around a central atrium biased to the north of the site where a traffic intersection defines the end of one of the city’s main axes. The spiraling program opens up to the south creating a series of stepped terraces that favor a large park housing major cultural buildings. As a result, the terraced massing allows the building to negotiate two conditions at once: an urban edge and an extension of landscape. The border between park and school are effectively blurred as they braid and spiral around each other.
Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
Principal use: Elementary & Middle School
Site area: 10,000 m2
Building area: 5000 m2
Total floor area: 16,000 m2
Number of stories: 6
Design team: Chieh-shu Tzou, Gregorio S. Lubroth
In collaboration with GP architektur (Georg Pamperl, Paul Mayr)
Structural Engineering: Werkraum Ingenieure
Climate Engineering: Bauklimatik
Landscape Architecture: Korbwurf Lanschaftsarchitektur