NUSUS Niedermann Sigg Schwendener Architekten . photos: © Roger Frei
The existing Riedmatt School Complex was conceived as an autonomous urban composition with its independent orientation towards the neighboring residential buildings. The building extension takes up the urban planning considerations of the existing complex analogously. Like the existing School building, the new extension consists of two interpenetrating cubes of different heights slightly offset from each other. The two School buildings develop a central rectangular square in their middle, which, in addition to the existing break areas, creates a new quality within the school complex as an inwardly oriented schoolyard. Continue reading Niedermann Sigg Schwendener