Selective overall performance competition replacement school building Alpen C

The City of Wallisellen is planning to build a replacement building, “Alpen C”, on the Alpen school grounds, comprising six classrooms and the associated group, support and ancillary rooms. The existing pavilion no longer meets the functional, pedagogical and technical requirements of a contemporary school operation and is to be replaced by a compact, sustainable new building. The outdoor space is currently partly inadequate in functional terms. As part of the construction project, it is to be upgraded as a whole and aligned with the children’s present-day needs for movement, recreation and learning. The replacement building is to further develop, in a contemporary manner, the role of the school complex as an identity-forming focal point for the neighbourhood, and respond to the qualities of its location on Alpenstrasse. It must be well integrated in terms of scale, volume and open-space design.