Four compact building elements house the multipurpose Schauenberg school. A large roof unites the tracts and creates the expansive covered courtyard which can be accessed from each building.

On the façade, human-sized letters have been sandblasted directly into the concrete. In the interior, the letters are three-dimensional: cast aluminium for the storey numbers and lacquered aluminium sheeting on the wooden doors to the classrooms. The lined lettering used throughout the building takes inspiration from the reddish-brown bricks and the fine tracings of the battens on the concrete.

• Address:

  Lerchenhalde 40, 8046 Zurich

• New build:

  2019

• Architecture:

  Adrian Streich Architekten, Zurich

• Commissioned by:

  City of Zurich, Amt für Hochbauten

• Project team:

  Natalie Bringolf, Kristin Irion, Jonas Minnig, Laura Moor, Yvonne Schneider

• Photography:

  Luis Hartl, Buchs