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Entwurf • Design Ernst Niklaus Fausch, CH-Zürich
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan
Längsschnitt • Longitudinal section
Querschnitt • Transversal section
Bauherr • Client Einwohnergemeinde Würenlingen
Standort • Location Weissensteinstr. 3, CH-Würenlingen
Nutzfläche • Floor space 5670 m 2
Fotos • Photos Johannes Marburg, CH-Genf
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 135
WEISSENSTEIN SCHOOL
IN WÜRENLINGEN
In Würenlingen in the Swiss canton of Aargau, ENF –
Ernst Niklaus Fausch und Partner expanded an existing
school. The two new buildings — a school and a two-
field sports hall — blend gently into the existing topo-
graphy and extend the existing campus, designed by
architect Hans Oeschger and completed in 1993, as a
dialectical coexistence of old and new architecture.
U sing the façade material of the existing building as a reference,
ENF chose a light-coloured facing brick for both new buildings,
which in the combination of stretcher and Flemish bond with headers
partially protruding or missing in the parapet areas creates attractive
plays of light and structures the school building and sports hall in the
current campus context in an identity-forming way. Skilfully taking ad-
vantage of the topography, the sports hall offers an upper access to
the sports and break facilities and a separately accessible level for the
spectators. The new three-storey school building with a painting stu-
dio in the basement offers rooms for a kindergarten and a multi-
functional function room — which can also be used for extracurricular
activities — on the ground floor, as well as the school rooms on the
upper level. The Le Corbusier colours 32001 yellow, 32110 red and
32021 blue correspond with the solid concrete structure and are used
as a unifying colour triad throughout both new buildings, right up to
the colourfully designed schoolyard areas: Wooden slats on the walls
of the sports hall filter the coloured areas of the wall infills behind
them. Coloured, space-creating curtains highlight and define areas in
the multifunctional event space. The corridor is dead, long live the
central hall! Its partition walls towards the classrooms are filled with
a stimulating interplay of colourful wall panels that divide the hall
spaces and give them individual identities within the common archi-
tectural context. As a logical consequence, the coordinated fire pro-
tection concept at this point allows for furnishing and full use of the
hall as a teaching space for different pedagogical concepts and does
justice to the planners’ claim that the architecture should be under-
stood as a spatial component of the didactic concept. Despite high
energy efficiency requirements, the new buildings meet the Minergie
standard and, with the exception of the wet rooms and basement, do
not use ventilation technology: all rooms, including the sports hall,
can be naturally cross-ventilated from two sides. The building mass is
used for night cooling and phase shifting.
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