The area encompassing the Bogenacker and Tannenbühl sites previously consisted of two primary school buildings and several small structures surrounding an undefined central space. By reoccupying this central area, the new Dürnten school campus succeeds in uniting the school grounds, three kindergartens, and ten regular classes across three sites into a single entity. The central school building is newly constructed as a contemporary schoolhouse with three “naves.” The access area — the center and “service nave” — features a spacious entrance hall and a grand staircase, built in exposed concrete. The two laterally arranged “side naves,” constructed using sustainable timber elements, form the flexible layer of functional spaces that house the classrooms. Continuous timber elements frame the rooms and provide a calm, cohesive appearance.
The three-part structure is unified by a weathered timber facade and a projecting, continuous metal escape balcony.
The school building is designed to be expandable in the future, thereby addressing sustainability and flexibility requirements.

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Next to the tracks of the Baden railway and behind a former factory owner’s villa, the house occupies an introverted yet exposed plot between the tram line and the garden. Along the curve of the tram tracks, lined with tall, old trees, a private path tangentially opens up an almost square section of what was once the large garden of a factory owner’s villa. The new house marks the end of this path with its front façade. On one side, the house is in close proximity to the tracks. On the other side, a wall encloses a garden and defines it as an autonomous space shielded from the outside world. This garden forms the conceptual counterpart to the transport infrastructure and can only be reached and perceived via the house.

The house appears to occupy a narrow plot between the railway tracks and the walls. Both dividing and connecting, the house mediates between the garden and the infrastructure. The house consists of a 55 cm thick outer wall made of insulating concrete. This archaic-looking construction is diffusion-open and has no layers. It is the same on the inside and outside. All interior walls and ceilings are made of 15 cm thin reinforced concrete. The pipes for heating in winter and cooling in summer are laid directly into the floor slabs without additional structures.
The entire house is a monolithic, thermally activated mass and has a temperature-regulating effect.

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One house, two flats, three generations and a mighty shady tree in the garden. Surrounded by an old printing works and an office building, the house from the 1960s stands somewhat hidden in the centre of Schaan. Over the course of its history, it has been transformed time and again. The addition of a covered terrace on the south side gave the house its first significant change at the turn of the millennium.

The former oversized single-family residence became a house for three generations with two flats one above the other. The garden apartment was left in its original state, with the exception of a little colour and a few openings for new pipes. In the upper part, the bedrooms were retained and supplemented with precise interventions. Instead of the attic with its gabled roof, a large living space has been added. The open room composition with the precisely positioned windows makes the room appear even more spacious and creates a dialogue with the garden with the mighty tree on the one hand and the mountain range of the “Dreischwestern” on the other.

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