Article source: Schenker Salvi Weber

All moved in! The extension of the primary school in the Tyrolean municipality of Absam was completed in September 2016. After one-and-a-half years of construction, kids are now frolicking around in the two-story kindergarten. The first sport classes are already taking place in the triple gymnasium, and sweet sounds are floating down from the new music school under the roof of the historic primary school building.

There wasn’t much space for the new building in the 7000-person community of Absam, the “village of the Olympians” in the Hall-Wattens region, just 20 minutes by car from Innsbruck. So the architects Schenker Salvi Weber – the only ones among the 20 competition participants – decided to situate the sports hall underground and, for structural reasons, build the two-story kindergarten atop in a lightweight wood frame construction.

View of schoolyard with primary school and kindergarten, Image Courtesy © Bengt Stiller

• Architects: Schenker Salvi Weber
• Project: Absam Primary School
• Location: Absam, Austria
• Photography: Bengt Stiller
• Client:
  • Municipality of Absam
  • Immobilien GesmbH & Co KG
• Team: Bettina Doser, Sophie Gerg, Teresa de Miguel, Thomas Morgner, Hans Reumann, Barbara Roller, Tiago Santana, Michael Salvi, Andres Schenker, Verena Theil, Tina Tobisch, Katalin Tóth, Rowena Ullrich, Thomas Weber
• Commission type: EU-wide invited competition, general planning
• Energy efficiency: Passive house standard
• Structural engineer: wood construction. Merz Kley Partner
• Structural engineer: reinforced concrete / geotechnics. ZSZ Ingenieure ZT GesmbH
• Building physics: IBO – Austrian Institute for Healthy and Ecological Building
• Construction management and costs: Die Bauleiter
• Building technology: Moser + Partner Ingenieurbüro

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