Project type: Educational
Year of completion: 2021
GFA: 143,085 sf · 13,293 m²
Team: 3 architects + 2 site managers
Costs: approx. $40.29M · €35.5M
Timeline: 2015 – 2021 (Nov. 2016 – Oct. 2019)
Role: Project Architect
Paul-Winter School in Neuburg an der Donau serves 600 middle school students. The campus includes a double gym, outdoor sports areas, a cafeteria, and spaces for after-school programs. The school complex provides barrier-free access throughout. Courtyards, green areas, and a central atrium connect the indoor and outdoor spaces.
The "school street" acts as the main gathering place and connects all buildings. It opens to the surrounding landscape and helps students move across campus. The two-story assembly and auditorium area forms the center of the campus. The auditorium features broad steps and seating for events and daily interaction. The two-story building allows open views across the surrounding fields.
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Main Responsibilities
- Construction Documents (modular partition walls, curtain wall, metalwork railings and emergency stairwell)
- Interior planning (built-in furniture, fire doors, entrance furniture)
- Coalition planning with electro and HVAC with architecture plans
- Acoustic measures in the classrooms and auditorium
- Coordination for acoustic measures in classrooms and gym
- Construction detailing (facade, escape staircases, railings, sun-shading)
- Color and lighting concept
- 3D models (Rhino)
- Visualization (V-Ray + Photoshop)
Window
Triple-pane low-E insulated glazing
Exterior Wall
With 28cm insulation WLG 035 (R-value ≈ R-5 per inch)
Roof
With 35cm insulation WLG 035 (R-value ≈ R-5 per inch)
Foundation Slab
With 24cm insulation WLG 035 (R-value ≈ R-5 per inch)
Special Design Features
Construction type: concrete construction with ventilated wooden facade
- Tilted pixel façade providing sun shading and acoustic control for the auditorium (concerts, events and performances)
- Decentralized facade units bring in and filter fresh air for each classroom (used air flows through the classrooms and into the common area and auditorium; a central system removes the exhaust air, recovers heat from it, and uses this energy to preheat the incoming air, with a heat pump providing additional heating as needed)
- 4 classrooms grouped in learning clusters with shared teachers lounge, restrooms, break area and an additional multifunctional classroom
- "Main street" typology as a concept for wayfinding in the school complex
- Accessibility through working with existing topography to ensure ground-level access for both floors (minimizing elevator number to one)
- Strong indoor–outdoor connections allow school life and classes to flow into the surrounding landscape (raised planting beds, playgrounds and recreation areas)
CAD Program / BIM: AutoCAD 3D · Modeling: Rhino · 3D Rendering: V-Ray + Photoshop
