德国法兰克福K 12模块化木材学校建筑项目丨Von Gerkan,Marg & Partners (gmp)

This K-12 project in Germany from gmp is one of the world’s largest modular timber school buildings

Von Gerkan, Marg & Partners

(gmp) has shared new images from their 2019 prefabricated K-12 design for

Frankfurt

’s diverse Westend community that now stands as one of the EU’s and world’s largest modular timber school buildings.

The fully demountable 175,000-square-foot school building temporarily accommodates 2,000 students while their new permanent building was being completed nearby. It was built in under 24 months using 350 prefabricated modules and 176,000 cubic feet of wood taken from Central European forests.

The firm says the combination of strategy and material results in a 30% improvement of Energy Conservation Regulations (EnEV) metrics, with another 60% reduction in terms of the time spent on construction.

The design's compactness responds to the relatively confined site while reducing the distances traveled within the high school and the elementary school, each of which has six parallel classes per grade level and are consolidated in a three-story building with two internal courtyards provided to shelter school recess activities.

Classroom spaces are oriented to quieter east and west sides of the campus and the two courtyards, with one each allocated to be the center of either school. The firm says it also operates with one-quarter of the carbon dioxide emissions required for a comparable building in solid construction.

We highlighted gmp's commitment to sustainability and the reduction of waste that was

on display last fall

in a two-city exhibition at the Goethe-Institut in New York and at Architektur Galerie Berlin.