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ÖFFENTLICHE BAUTEN • PUBLIC BUILDINGS TECHNISCHER AUSBAU • TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS

Der Korridor im Obergeschoss besitzt Arbeitsnischen. • Work niches in the corridor on the upper floor

Mensa mit Essensausgabe für 200 SchülerInnen • Canteen with food counter for 200 pupils Sichtbares Holz kontrastiert das unifarbene Linoleum. • Visible wood contrasts with the plain-coloured linoleum.

T he Fuchshof School in Schorndorf has a building history with Swiss roots: After while in the wooden modular building, it is the grey wooden slats. On the ground
World War II, the Fuchshof district grew rapidly, increasing the need for school
floor of the new building, alongside the entrance hall, there is a cafeteria, a music
space. In 1963, the city therefore had a primary school built, consisting of five pre- room that can be connected to the dining room, a parent-teacher meeting room, a
fabricated pavilions and a gymnasium. Prefabricated buildings of the Swiss Variel room for after-school care, a teacher’s room and ancillary rooms. The floor above
“Programm 58” system, developed by architect Fritz Stucky (1929-2014) from Zug, houses a room for remedial teaching, a room for teaching materials and an outdoor
were chosen. It consisted of prefabricated room cells with a hybrid construction of classroom, which may later be converted into a fully-fledged classroom. As a large
wood and sheet steel. Stucky’s development met with a very positive response among part of the planning and implementation phase coincided with the COVID-19 pande-
school authorities at the time, and the pavilions were used internationally as tem- mic, exchange took place mainly virtually. It was very helpful that the planning office
porary structures or as additions to existing buildings. The Fuchshof School is one and the executing company shared a modular system understanding. Thus, only eight
of the few examples where an entire school was built using this system. In 2018, months passed from the jury decision to the start of construction works. The predo-
the complex was placed under a preservation order and saved from demolition. The minantly Swiss team was also challenged by partially different official requirements:
city of Schorndorf then decided to expand the complex with a new building and For example, while in Germany a testing engineer approves the structural design, in
to refurbish the pavilions. The Swiss team, consisting of Bauart Architekten and the Switzerland, a timber engineer is allowed to plan without official inspections. There
timber construction company Blumer-Lehmann AG, which produced the modules in were also differences in fire protection, necessitating an additional escape staircase
its German factory, won the competition. The two-storey building is a further deve- on the outside of the building. The basic principle of the modular buildings could
lopment of school modular buildings that the team had already implemented in Bern largely be adopted. It includes two module types constructed of cross-laminated tim-
and Winterthur. Due to its positioning on the northern edge of the school grounds, ber and glued laminated timber, with lengths of 6.8 and 10.2 metres, a width of 3.4
its differentiated volumes and its delicate façade made of pre-greyed wood, the woo- metres and a clear ceiling height of 2.8 metres. While the load-bearing structure of the
den modular building blends in with the ensemble. The new extension is stepped in modules usually consists of softwood, additional beams made of beech were used
height and creates a gentle transition with the one-storey section facing the Variel buil- in the dining room, allowing for a column-free span of 10.2 meters. The modules are
dings. Analogous to the existing ensemble, the modularity is visible from the outside: braced by several closed wall elements in transverse and longitudinal directions. At
in the existing building, bevelled sun-protection louvres add a rhythm to the joints, all four module corners, load-bearing wall panels optimise the span. The outer walls,

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