The building stands in a garden in the middle of the

village, on a public square. The square is the playground

for the school and the garden is the outside play area for

the kindergarten.

The building is a perfect square in plan. Primary school

and kindergarten are each organized on one floor oriented

in all directions, being connected by a public floor in

between. They both have their own entrance facade on

opposite sides of the building and their own outside area

surrounding the whole building.

The slabs are carried by the facade, a circular wall

segment around the stairs and the elevator core. The two

entrance facades brace the building in one direc-tion,

the circular wall segment in the other. The almost full

height facade openings, geometrically identi-cal quarter

ellipses, form arches that are bent at 90 degrees. Tied by

means of prestressed cables, loads are transferred to the

bearing points in the middle of each facade.

The outside appearance of the building can be associated

to a tree. A portion of the supporting structure is

present in every room and connects each single space to

the entity as a whole.