Article source: CEBRA 

The new Mesterfjellet School and Family Centre combines contemporary pedagogical theory with varied teaching environments, passivhaus level energy efficiency and excellent indoor climate in a 5-story school for 572 students on an urban site in Larvik. The school is a collaboration between the Danish architecture office CEBRA and Norwegian collaborators Various Architects, SPINN Arkitekter and landscape architects Østengen & Bergo. Mesterfjellet School creates a framework for a lively and a multifaceted educational universe with great spatial variation that supports the schools varying functions. An arena for learning and teaching, a workplace, and a social meeting place.

Image Courtesy © Mikkel Frost

• Architects: CEBRA 
• Project: Mesterfjellet 1-10 School And Family Centre
• Location: Larvik, Norway
• Photography: Mikkel Frost, Jiri Havran Mesterfjell
  
• Client: Larvik Municipality
• Architect: Various Architects (from competition to tender), SPINN Arkitekter (from detail design to completion)
• Landscape architect: Østengen & Bergo
  
• Interior: Berg-Larsen
  
• Project Management: OPAK
  
• Main Contractor: Buer Entreprenør
  
• Size: 6.000 m² new building
• Year: 2011-2014

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Article source: CEBRA

Vertical Campus is a substantial extension to the local school. In the northern hemisphere, it makes sense to build compact buildings because they are economic and reduce heat loss, and also because this ensures short internal distances and synergies between different functions. In addition to being a compact school, the Vertikal Campus has a small footprint. First of all, this makes it possible to reuse the old foundations, which is important due to highly complicated geotechnical circumstances. Secondly, it leaves more outdoor park area for the children and creates distance to neighboring houses.

Vertical Campus

• Architects: CEBRA
• Project: Vertical Campus
• Location: Ahlfeldtsgata, Larvik, Norway
• Commission: Public
• Type: Competition
• Category: Education
• Client: Larvik Municipality

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