ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST.URSULA

The schoo­ly­ard of St. Ursu­la School com­ple­ments the exis­ting school buil­ding, which has just been exten­ded. The bud­get went into the crea­ti­ve, func­tion­al reno­va­ti­on ins­tead of repla­cing the sur­fa­cing.
The design of the schoo­ly­ard uses orga­nic forms to pro­vi­de a deli­be­ra­te con­trast to the school buil­dings geo­me­try. Main goals of the schoo­ly­ard design are to unse­al, to crea­te a natu­ral design and to increase the ran­ge of oppor­tu­ni­ties for play and recrea­ti­on.
This is achie­ved through a dif­fe­ren­tia­ted height and sur­face design and an offer that ran­ges from play to sport, from quiet recrea­ti­on are­as to artis­tic enga­ge­ment with the envi­ron­ment.
Vege­ta­ti­on can be expe­ri­en­ced in a varie­ty of forms through archi­tec­tu­ral plan­tings at the buil­ding, urban vege­ta­ti­on at the bor­ders to the sur­roun­ding streets and the pre­do­mi­nant, near-natu­ral plan­ting insi­de.
Mono­chro­me color islands with dif­fe­rent cove­rings and the streng­thening and expan­si­on of the spa­ti­al qua­li­ties of the exis­ting vege­ta­ti­on lend the neces­sa­ry spa­ti­al and con­tent-rela­ted ori­en­ta­ti­on and the respec­ti­ve refe­rence to the indi­vi­du­al place in the varie­ty of offers.