„Neues Gymnasium“ secondary school
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- Bochum, Germany
- Year
- 2012
The ‘Neues Gymnasium’ consists of two interlocking ring-shaped buildings. The inner area of the smaller building part is closed by an approx. 1,000m² pneumatically supported air-cushion membrane roof. The larger building part is not roofed and is designed as an open-air greened inner courtyard.
The three-storey secondary school building with a floor plan measuring approx. 125 x 70 meters, and approx. 12 meters high was built as a monolithic structure without joints using in-situ concrete with reinforced concrete slabs.
As a rule, the distance between columns is approx. 7 – 8 meters. For the especially column-free use of the assembly hall, the walls in the overhead levels L1 and L2 were designed as deep beams so that together with the slabs, a very effective structural system was created with which a very large span width was made economically possible.
Bracing was achieved through the evenly distributed stairwell cores along the floor plan and additionally by the existing elevators and firewalls.
Architect
Hascher Jehle Architektur, Berlin
Client
Entwicklungsgesellschaft Ruhr-Bochum mbH
Gross area
13.000 sqm
Gross volume
65.000 cbm