Article source: Raphael Zuber Architekt

The building stands in the middle of a garden on a public square. The square is a uniformly sloping paved surface, planted with walnut trees and is the playground for the school. The garden is a circular crater, overgrown with a field of flowers, and is the outside play area for the kindergarten. The geometry of the garden and the level of the building are determined by a quadrate horizontal surface on which the building stands and by the two approaches.

Image Courtesy © Javier Miguel Verme 

• Architects: Raphael Zuber Architekt
• Project: School House and kindergarten
• Location: Grono, Switzerland
• Photography: Javier Miguel Verme
• Client: Comune politico di 6537 Grono 
• Competition: 1st prize, 2007 
• Architect: Raphael Zuber, Chur 
• Collaborators: David Gianinazzi, Kosuke Yutani 
• Project Managemer: Thomas Melliger – Bauplanung, Zürich 
• Construction supervisor: Devis Bruni and Giulio Cereghetti, Mesocco 
• Structural Engineer: Patrick Gartmann (Conzett Bronzini Gartmann AG, Chur) 
• Landscape Architect: 4D AG Landschaftsarchitekten, Bern 
• Beginn of planning: january 2008 
• Beginn of construction: march 2009 
• End of construction: August 2011