Hanhoopsfeld School Campus, Hamburg Educational Facility, German Architecture Images
Hanhoopsfeld School Campus in Hamburg
Städt. Schule: Modern Education Architecture in Germany – design by AllesWirdGut
16 Oct 2019
Hanhoopsfeld School
Architects: AllesWirdGut
Location: Hanhoopsfeld 21, 21079 Hamburg, Germany

Two schools, one typology, infinite possibilities. For the Lessing Hanhoopsfeld School and the Alexander von Humboldt Grammar School, AllesWirdGut and DnD Landschaftsplanung laid out a generous extensive park landscape with free-standing, well-proportioned solitaire buildings.

Positioned in a staggered array, the structures are subtly gradated in height and thus align with the dynamic of the marked step in the terrain.
The shared multi-purpose building?the hub and center of the campus?is situated on the visual axis between the two schools? main entrances and provides an urban-planning reference point that is visible from all sides.

The compact units are all defined by straight lines and articulated in a contemporary architectural language, which, for example, expresses itself in the uniform clinker-clad façades. Inside the teaching buildings, the classrooms are arranged in a circle around a central atrium like the blades of a windmill.

Open areas and niches provide facilities for a variety of forms of teaching and learning. The outdoor areas, which include a biotope pond, an open-air theater, and crop trial plots, offer individually usable and commun...