Translocal Architecture
Fondation La Monneresse
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education buildings
Place
Aigle, Switzerland
Studio
Photos
Rainer Taepper
Description
The
new building for the Fondation La Monneresse is a special school for children
who have education difficulties. The school is spatially divided into two parts
- the base with superordinate functions such as administration, dining room and
entrance area, and the classrooms upstairs. One enters the building centrally via a foyer where there is a cloakroom, from
where two staircases lead to the classrooms, where four classes each have a
common learning cluster. The resulting room units allow for a variety of
teaching configurations, from classic lecture-format teaching to cross-class
project work. As the heart of the building and visible from all classes, a
library flooded with light invites the students to read and browse the shelves. Whilst the façade in light-coloured clinker brick blends sensitively into the
surroundings, the exposed concrete and wooden surfaces of the interior reflect
the feeling throughout of airiness. With its multi-folded
roof - originally a concession to the building regulations - the school
building immediately recognisable, which promotes the identification of the
pupils and the teaching staff with the building.